{"product_id":"books-the-talented-miss-farwell-by-emily-gray-tedrowe","title":"The Talented Miss Farwell","description":"Catch Me If You Can meets Patricia Highsmith in  this “stylish” (New York Times Book Review) page-turner of greed and  obsession, survival and self-invention that is a piercing character study of  one unforgettable female con artist.   At the end of the 1990s, with the art market finally  recovered from its disastrous collapse, Miss Rebecca Farwell has made a killing  at Christie’s in New York City, selling a portion of her extraordinary art  collection for a rumored 900 percent profit. Dressed in couture YSL, drinking  the finest champagne at trendy Balthazar, Reba, as she’s known, is the picture  of a wealthy art collector. To some, the elusive Miss Farwell is a shark with  outstanding business acumen. To others, she’s a heartless capitalist whose only  interest in art is how much she can make.  But a thousand miles from the Big Apple, in the small town  of Pierson, Illinois, Miss Farwell is someone else entirely—a quiet single  woman known as Becky who still lives in her family’s farmhouse, wears sensible  shoes, and works tirelessly as the town’s treasurer and controller.   No one understands the ins and outs of Pierson’s accounts  better than Becky; she’s the last one in the office every night, crunching the  numbers. Somehow, her neighbors marvel, she always finds a way to get the  struggling town just a little more money. What Pierson doesn’t see—and can  never discover—is that much of that money is shifted into a separate account  that she controls, “borrowed” funds used to finance her art habit. Though she  quietly repays Pierson when she can, the business of art is cutthroat and  unpredictable.                               But as Reba Farwell’s deals get bigger and bigger, Becky  Farwell’s debt to Pierson spirals out of control. How long can the talented  Miss Farwell continue to pull off her double life?","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53669247844625,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780062897718.jpg?v=1781507158","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-the-talented-miss-farwell-by-emily-gray-tedrowe","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}