{"product_id":"villa-coco-49911","title":"Villa Coco","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn aspiring archivist determined to begin a \"serious\" life after an undistinguished undergraduate career takes up residence in the Italian countryside. Here, he becomes the all-purpose assistant to the Baronessa, known to her friends as Coco, a defiantly youthful and naturally flamboyant woman of ninety-two. Amid a chaotic and colorful milieu of gin-swilling princesses, incomprehensible handymen, roaming boarhunters, nuns, and other local wildlife, our young man does his best to catalog the villa's extensive collection of art and antiques-although he notices that things seem to go missing from right under his nose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite himself, he tumbles into an affair with a married man, complicating his future plans considerably. And when the Baronessa loses someone close to her, he becomes an unwitting accomplice in the acceleration of Coco's great and final plan: to locate the love of her life and be reunited before it's too late. Told with the signature wit, charm, and humanity that made Less an international phenomenon, Villa Coco is a dazzling, sun-soaked ode to life itself, a meditation on how seriously we ought to take ourselves, and a bawdy Mediterranean ballad about becoming who we've always wanted to be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The BookSpot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67630621294728,"sku":"49911","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"EGP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/5421\/0440\/files\/9780385552783.jpg?v=1791324978","url":"https:\/\/bookspotonline.com\/products\/villa-coco-49911","provider":"The BookSpot","version":"1.0","type":"link"}