{"product_id":"lafcadios-adventures","title":"Lafcadio's Adventures","description":"Passing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate André Gide's \u003cb\u003eLafcadio's Adventures\u003c\/b\u003e is a brilliantly sly satire and one of the clearest articulations of his greatest theme: the unmotivated crime. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Lafcadio Wluiki, a street-smart nineteen-year-old in 1890s Paris, learns that he's heir to an ailing French nobleman's fortune, he's seized by wanderlust. Traveling through Rome in expensive new threads, he becomes entangled in a Church extortion scandal involving an imprisoned Pope, a skittish purveyor of graveyard statuary, an atheist-turned-believer on the edge of insolvency, and all manner of wastrels, swindlers, aristocrats, adventurers, and pickpockets. With characteristic irony, Gide contrives a hilarious detective farce whereby the wrong man is apprehended, while the charmingly perverse Lafcadio--one of the most original creations in all modern fiction--goes free.","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48829162029261,"sku":"9780375713385","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_baf39079-16d2-4598-8835-c48f6eff66b5.jpg?v=1790198327","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/lafcadios-adventures","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}