{"product_id":"9780062897718","title":"The Talented Miss Farwell : A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eCatch Me If You Can meets Patricia Highsmith in\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ethis \"stylish\" (New York Times Book Review) page-turner of greed and\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eobsession, survival and self-invention that is a piercing character study of\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eone unforgettable female con artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e At the end of the 1990s, with the art market finally\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003erecovered from its disastrous collapse, Miss Rebecca Farwell has made a killing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eat Christie's in New York City, selling a portion of her extraordinary art\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ecollection for a rumored 900 percent profit. Dressed in couture YSL, drinking\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ethe finest champagne at trendy Balthazar, Reba, as she's known, is the picture\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eof a wealthy art collector. To some, the elusive Miss Farwell is a shark with\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eoutstanding business acumen. To others, she's a heartless capitalist whose only\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003einterest in art is how much she can make.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut a thousand miles from the Big Apple, in the small town\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eof Pierson, Illinois, Miss Farwell is someone else entirely—a quiet single\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ewoman known as Becky who still lives in her family's farmhouse, wears sensible\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eshoes, and works tirelessly as the town's treasurer and controller. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNo one understands the ins and outs of Pierson's accounts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ebetter than Becky; she's the last one in the office every night, crunching the\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003enumbers. Somehow, her neighbors marvel, she always finds a way to get the\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003estruggling town just a little more money. What Pierson doesn't see—and can\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003enever discover—is that much of that money is shifted into a separate account\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ethat she controls, \"borrowed\" funds used to finance her art habit. Though she\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003equietly repays Pierson when she can, the business of art is cutthroat and\n\u003cbr\u003e\\nunpredictable. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut as Reba Farwell's deals get bigger and bigger, Becky\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFarwell's debt to Pierson spirals out of control. How long can the talented\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMiss Farwell continue to pull off her double life? \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48667068334315,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":31.11,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780062897718-1.jpg?v=1781604780","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9780062897718","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}