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The Lady Waiting : A Novel

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Product Code: 9780593542941
ISBN13: 9780593542941
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?This novel pops? Cosmopolitan, sexy, and funny.? ?Percival Everett, author of The Trees The White Lotus meets The Talented Mr. Ripley in this high-spirited novel of a stolen Vermeer, a Polish transplant in LA, and the charismatic couple who seduce her into a misguided international heist One bright Los Angeles day, a young Polish émigré named Viva is driving along the freeway when she?s flagged down by a dazzling, disheveled woman in green chiffon. The woman is Bobby Sleeper, a fellow Eastern European and an erstwhile art gallerist with a mysterious background and even more mysterious filmmaker husband. Within days the couple hire Viva as their assistant, then enlist her as an accomplice in an improbable scheme involving a long-lost Vermeer masterwork, a multi-million-dollar reward, and several shadowy ex-husbands. As Bobby and her husband weave her ever more tightly into their web, Viva is swept up in an escapade that?s one part art heist, one part love triangle, and one part education of a felon. Entranced by their lifestyle, alarmed by their ramshackle scam, Viva realizes she?s out of her depth?and that only luck, cunning, and her own hustler?s instinct can save her from disaster. Careening from the canyons of LA to the canals of Venice, The Lady Waiting is a page-turning caper, a cavalcade of twenty-first-century sins?rapacious capitalism, shameless fraud, and atrocious behavior?and a showcase for three of the biggest and most unforgettable characters in recent fiction.


Author: Magdalena Zyzak
Publisher: Penguin
Publication Date: May 07, 2024
Number of Pages: 353 pages
Language: English
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0593542940
ISBN-13: 9780593542941

The Lady Waiting : A Novel

$28.00
$25.82
Sale 8%
 
?This novel pops? Cosmopolitan, sexy, and funny.? ?Percival Everett, author of The Trees The White Lotus meets The Talented Mr. Ripley in this high-spirited novel of a stolen Vermeer, a Polish transplant in LA, and the charismatic couple who seduce her into a misguided international heist One bright Los Angeles day, a young Polish émigré named Viva is driving along the freeway when she?s flagged down by a dazzling, disheveled woman in green chiffon. The woman is Bobby Sleeper, a fellow Eastern European and an erstwhile art gallerist with a mysterious background and even more mysterious filmmaker husband. Within days the couple hire Viva as their assistant, then enlist her as an accomplice in an improbable scheme involving a long-lost Vermeer masterwork, a multi-million-dollar reward, and several shadowy ex-husbands. As Bobby and her husband weave her ever more tightly into their web, Viva is swept up in an escapade that?s one part art heist, one part love triangle, and one part education of a felon. Entranced by their lifestyle, alarmed by their ramshackle scam, Viva realizes she?s out of her depth?and that only luck, cunning, and her own hustler?s instinct can save her from disaster. Careening from the canyons of LA to the canals of Venice, The Lady Waiting is a page-turning caper, a cavalcade of twenty-first-century sins?rapacious capitalism, shameless fraud, and atrocious behavior?and a showcase for three of the biggest and most unforgettable characters in recent fiction.


Author: Magdalena Zyzak
Publisher: Penguin
Publication Date: May 07, 2024
Number of Pages: 353 pages
Language: English
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0593542940
ISBN-13: 9780593542941
 

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