The Resource The bad girl, Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
The bad girl, Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
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- Summary
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- "Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as the teenage "Lily" in Lima in 1950, when she arrives one summer out of the blue, saying she's from Chile and vanishing the instant her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her again in Paris, where she is the enchanting "Comrade Arlette, " an activist en route to Cuba and a remote lover who denies knowing anything about the Lily of their youth. As the years pass, whatever guise the bad girl assumes - whether that of Madame Robert Arnoux, the wife of a high-ranking UNESCO official, or of Kuriko, the mistress of a sinister Japanese businessman - and however she abuses him, Ricardo is doomed to worship her."
- "The protean Lily, inspired liar and irresistible muse - will Ricardo ever learn who she really is? The answer is as unclear as what has become of Ricardo himself, a lifelong expatriate shadowed by the sense that he is only ever drifting. With this brilliantly poignant and intimate new novel, Vargas Llosa has created both a beguiling romance about the power of obsession and a moving meditation on the vicissitudes of individual lives lived against the ever-changing backdrop of history."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
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- eng
- spa
- eng
- Extent
- 276 p.
- Note
- Cover subtitle: A novel
- Isbn
- 9780374182434
- Label
- The bad girl
- Title
- The bad girl
- Statement of responsibility
- Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
- Language
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- eng
- spa
- eng
- Summary
-
- "Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as the teenage "Lily" in Lima in 1950, when she arrives one summer out of the blue, saying she's from Chile and vanishing the instant her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her again in Paris, where she is the enchanting "Comrade Arlette, " an activist en route to Cuba and a remote lover who denies knowing anything about the Lily of their youth. As the years pass, whatever guise the bad girl assumes - whether that of Madame Robert Arnoux, the wife of a high-ranking UNESCO official, or of Kuriko, the mistress of a sinister Japanese businessman - and however she abuses him, Ricardo is doomed to worship her."
- "The protean Lily, inspired liar and irresistible muse - will Ricardo ever learn who she really is? The answer is as unclear as what has become of Ricardo himself, a lifelong expatriate shadowed by the sense that he is only ever drifting. With this brilliantly poignant and intimate new novel, Vargas Llosa has created both a beguiling romance about the power of obsession and a moving meditation on the vicissitudes of individual lives lived against the ever-changing backdrop of history."--BOOK JACKET
- Award
- New York Times Notable Book, 2007
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 194633
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1936-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Vargas Llosa, Mario
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1936-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Grossman, Edith
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Expatriates
- Crushes (Interpersonal relations)
- Lovers
- Men/women relations
- Interpersonal attraction
- Love
- Independence in women
- Voyages and travels
- Ethics
- France
- Peru
- South America
- Label
- The bad girl, Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
- Note
- Cover subtitle: A novel
- Control code
- 000041267979
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 276 p.
- Isbn
- 9780374182434
- Label
- The bad girl, Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
- Note
- Cover subtitle: A novel
- Control code
- 000041267979
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 276 p.
- Isbn
- 9780374182434
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