9780374182434-0374182434-The Bad Girl: A Novel

The Bad Girl: A Novel

ISBN-13: 9780374182434
ISBN-10: 0374182434
Edition: First Edition
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780374182434
ISBN-10: 0374182434
Edition: First Edition
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover 288 pages

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The Bad Girl: A Novel (ISBN-13: 9780374182434 and ISBN-10: 0374182434), written by authors Mario Vargas Llosa, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Bad Girl: A Novel (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.41.

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Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as "Lily" in Lima in 1950, when she arrives one summer out of the blue, claiming to be from Chile but vanishing the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her next in Paris, where she appears as the enchanting "Comrade Arlette," an activist en route to Cuba, and becomes his lover, albeit n icy, remote one who denies knowing anything about the ily of years gone by. Whoever the bad girl turns up as--whether t's Madame Robert Arnoux, the wife of a high-ranking UNESCO fficial, or Kuriko, the mistress of a sinister Japanese businessman--and however poorly she treats him, Ricardo is doomed to worship her.

The protean Lily, gifted liar and irresistible, maddening muse--does Ricardo ever know who she really is? The answer is as unclear s what has become of Ricardo himself, a lifelong expatriate hadowed by the sense that he is only ever drifting. In MarioVargas Llosa's beguiling new novel, the strange bedfellows of good and bad turn out not to be what they appear.



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