Super in the City

Zusatztext “One should not simply read Super in the City ; one should gobble it up like candy.” —Elizabeth Gilbert! bestselling author of Eat! Pray! Love “Undoubtedly smarter and funnier than most girls-in-the-city novels.”— Publishers Weekly “[A] funny enjoyable caper about a dirty job…. With a polished lead character! an ear for snappy dialogue and a propulsive storytelling style.”— Kirkus Reviews "[A] lively! smart chick-lit mystery."— Booklist Informationen zum Autor Daphne Uviller was superintendent of her family’s building in the West Village for ten long years. She is a former Books/Poetry editor for Time Out New York and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsday, New York, Allure, and Self . A third-generation Greenwich Village resident, she now lives in her childhood apartment with her husband and two children. Klappentext In this off-the-beaten-sidewalk debut! native New Yorker Daphne Uviller reveals the secrets of a sexy! story-filled Big Apple! where a mystery lurks behind every apartment door—and a savvy but slightly lost young woman unexpectedly finds herself holding the keys. In a city brimming with opportunities for heroism! twenty-seven-year-old Zephyr Zuckerman has often fantasized about committing acts of bravery that would make front-page news. Now she may get her big break—though it may require plunging a few toilets. When the superintendent of her parents' Greenwich Village brownstone is led away in handcuffs! unemployed Zephyr takes over his post and unleashes her inner sleuth: discovering titillating secrets about her tenants—from a smoky-voiced Frenchwoman who entertains throngs of unsavory visitors to a moody musician who just has to be hiding something—and realizing that her new reality is far more intriguing than her imagination. Soon Zephyr has sussed out wrongs that stretch from losers on the Internet to art fraud and an international crime ring. The mob thinks she's in the FBI! and the FBI thinks she's in the mob—a predicament she needs to clear up fast. But perhaps not before the cute! surly exterminator helps her solve the mystery of what to do with the rest of her life.... Chapter One The night I went to the St. Regis hotel and accidentally crashed the birthday party of the Princess of Spain was the same night I was crowned superintendent of 287 West 12th Street. Both events took me completely by surprise and both led me to Gregory the exterminator, who wound up saving me in ways I didn't even know I needed to be saved. (I don't mean saved in a Jesus way. This is not a Jesus-saving kind of story.) To be honest, I was not even aware that Spain still had a princess until I was standing under the chandeliers in the hotel's Cavendish Room with my mouth stuffed full of her free tapas. I thought modern royalty was the purview of the British—Charles, Harry, William, tragically dead Di—something to keep the international tabloid business afloat. And I certainly didn't know I was at a birthday party. My black silk Ann Taylor sheath with cracked rhinestone brooches on the shoulder straps, a fifteen-dollar score at Housing Works Thrift Shop, was not meant to be employed in a way that would infringe upon a personally meaningful event: birthday parties, like wedding receptions, were off-limits under a set of hastily conceived crashing criteria. Tag and I had agreed upon this moral distinction a year ago, beneath the Akoustolith tiles outside the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station, right after we were unpleasantly outed at the sixtieth birthday party for the CEO of a door-hinge distribution company. Tanya Granger, known as Tag to distinguish her from a nursery school classmate named Tanya Tokowsky, had called me an hour earlier to announce that she was hungry. "I've got frozen pizza and orange juice," I told he...

Product details

• Authors: Daphne Uviller
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.01.2009
• EAN: 9780385342698
• ISBN: 978-0-385-34269-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 210 mm x 17 mm
• Series: The Zephyr Books; The Zephyr Books
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature