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...escape can only be found by getting in the car and driving away. They finally decide to go to Chicago ("Chi"), where Gunner has a vague offer to work for an ad-agency. "They came roaring into Chi through a night torched by the steel-mill fires, eerie and hellish," writes Wakefield. They reach a curve in the road and Sonny fumbles, realizing it is "too late, too late even to put on the brake." They head straight into a cement abutment and then smash...
Which is also why I almost was going to conclude by suggesting that Play It As It Lays -restricted though its view is to one particularly hellish segment of America-should not be read by anyone the least bit unhappy with the worthlessness of life...
Which is also why I almost was going to conclude by suggesting that Play It As It Lays -restricted though its view is to one particularly hellish segment of America-should not be read by anyone the least bit unhappy with the worthlessness of life...
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...first act revolves around the hellish odyssey of a peasant serving-girl, who roams the countryside with the abandoned baby son of the executed governor. She is never more than a few steps ahead of the Ironshirts, the brutal mercenaries ordered to find and murder the infant heir. In her search for a sanctuary where she can hide the boy and await the return of her lover from the imperial army, she meets with nothing but greed and hostility from the frightened peasants and rapacious lust from the soldiers. Her efforts to confront a culture of selfish barbarism with some...