{"product_id":"9780544227651","title":"Innocence","description":"\u003cb\u003e“A delectable comedy of manners” set in 1950s Florence, by the Booker Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eOffshore \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e It’s 1955, and Italy is still struggling a decade after the end of World War II. So are the Ridolfis, a Florentine family of long and fading noble lineage. Like their decrepit villa, they’ve seen better days. Only eighteen-year-old Chiara shows anything like vitality—however impulsive and perilously naïve. Chiara has set her heart and her future on Salvatore Rossi, a brilliant, penniless young doctor and bull-headed son of a Communist, who has erased both politics and romance from his list of priorities.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e With her plans stymied, Chiara calls on her resourceful and meddlesome British girlfriend, Barney, to help make an impossible match. Now, out of good intentions and the most innocent of instincts, two guileless friends are going to make a series of astonishingly wrong moves in the name of love.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e From a winner of multiple major literary awards who was called “the best English novelist of her time” by Julian Barnes, \u003ci\u003eInnocence \u003c\/i\u003eis a novel “not just about Italians in love but of living and loving for all humans” (\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “As intoxicating as a shot of aged brandy.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123736887536,"sku":"9780544227651","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780544227651_p0.jpg?v=1763711761","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780544227651","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}