{"product_id":"2940169508628","title":"Lost Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"There is no mistake about it, Alvina was a lost girl. She was cut off from everything she belonged to.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this most under-valued of his novels, Lawrence once again presents us with a young woman hemmed in by her middle-class upbringing and (like Ursula Brangwen in The Rainbow) longing for escape. Alvina Houghton's plight, however, is given a rather comic and even picaresque treatment. Losing first her mother, a perpetual invalid, and later her cross-dressing father, a woefully ineffectual small-scale entrepreneur, Alvina feels doomed to merge with the tribe of eternal spinsters who surround her in the dreary mining community of Woodhouse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto this drab environment enter the Natcha-Kee-Tawara: a polyglot, poly-amorous troupe of travelling players united, on- and off-stage, in a fantasy of Native American nomadism. Enter Ciccio, the surly dark-eyed horseman. The Italian's potent and threatening physicality overwhelms Alvina and soon will propel her into - what? Perdition, or the paradoxical freedom of a girl who 'like(s) being lost'?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e (Summary by Martin Geeson)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DISCOS PALMAS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47116807995632,"sku":"2940169508628","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169508628_p0.jpg?v=1772801597","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169508628","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}