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The Lady Waiting
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ISBN10: 0593542940
ISBN13: 9780593542941
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: May 7 2024
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.16 Width: 5.84 Depth: 8.51
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780593542941
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: May 7 2024
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.16 Width: 5.84 Depth: 8.51
Language: English
A breakneck romp of a novel with a stolen Vermeer, a tangled love triangle, a half-baked heist and enough depraved opulence to make Gatsby gasp. --People This novel pops-- Cosmopolitan, sexy, and funny. --Percival Everett, New York Times-bestselling author of James
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.
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