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008    231027s2024    nyu           000 1 eng   
010      2023049676 
020    9780593542941|q(hardcover) 
020    0593542940 
035    (OCoLC)1394001380 
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049    GPIA 
050 00 PS3626.Y93|bL33 2024 
082 00 813/.6|223/eng/20231103 
100 1  Zyzak, Magdalena,|eauthor. 
245 14 The lady waiting /|cMagdalena Zyzak. 
264  1 New York :|bRiverhead Books,|c2024. 
300    344 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "One bright Los Angeles day, a young Polish émigrée 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 
       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 gleefully bawdy Swiftian 
       caper, a cavalcade of 21st century sins - rapacious 
       capitalism, shameless fraud, and atrocious behavior - and 
       a showcase for three of the biggest and most unforgettable
       characters in recent fiction"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Polish people|zCalifornia|vFiction. 
650  0 Art thefts|vFiction. 
650  0 Art museums|vFiction. 
650  0 Triangles (Interpersonal relations)|vFiction. 
650  0 Exiles|vFiction. 
650  0 Motion picture producers and directors|vFiction. 
651  0 Los Angeles (Calif.)|vFiction. 
655  7 Humorous fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Novels|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01921742 
655  7 Novels.|2lcgft 
994    C0|bGPI