Play It As It Lays Didionov Joan (2011)

Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, hollowed-out actress Maria Wyeths life plays out in a numbing routine of perpetual freeway driving. In her early thirties, divorced from her husband, dislocated from friends and anesthetized to pain and pleasure, Wyeth is a woman who has run out of both desires and motives, the epitome of a generation made ill by too much freedom. More than five decades after its original publication, this remains a profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s.