{"product_id":"9781429921558","title":"The Bad Girl: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotable Book of 2007\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible . . . A contemporary love story that explores the mores of the urban 1960s--and 70s and 80s.\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eRicardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as \"Lily\" in Lima in 1950, when she flits into his life one summer and  disappears again without explanation. He loves her still when she reappears as a revolutionary in 1960s Paris, then later as Mrs. Richardson, the wife of a wealthy Englishman, and again as the mistress of a sinister Japanese businessman in Tokyo. However poorly she treats him, he is doomed to worship her. Charting Ricardo's expatriate life through his romances with this shape-shifting woman, Vargas Llosa has created a beguiling, epic romance about the life-altering power of obsession.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134108745968,"sku":"9781429921558","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429921558_p0.jpg?v=1763747314","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429921558","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}