Super Host

Super Host
Kate Russo
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 368pg
14 Apr 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781472270023
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Being lost in a place you know by heart is one of life' s most disconcerting feelingsBennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize nominated artist who was a Bright Young Thing. Now, aged 55, his wife has left him, the reviews have dried up, and his gallery wants to stop selling his paintings, saying they' ll have more value retrospectively. . . when he' s dead. So, left with a large West London home and no income, he moves into his painting studio in the back garden and rents out the house, soon reaching status as a Super Host on AirBed. At last, the money is coming in, but he' s loveless and, well, lonely. Turns out his house guests are as quirky, lost and entertaining as Bennett himself, unwittingly unlocking the parts of Bennett' s life that have been forgotten to him for too long, but can they help him feel less lost in the place he knows best? Wry, rueful and rich in observation, SUPER HOST provides a delicious portrait of middle-age, marriage, and the underlying fears and loneliness that colour so many lives.
This is the compulsively readable story of Bennett, a once-famous artist now divorced and impoverished, who lives in his garden studio and spies on his tenants through the windows. Super Host is hilarious, and touching, too; Kate Russo is a terrific storyteller. * Claire Messud * I gobbled up Super Host, Kate Russo' s smart, funny, and surprising first novel. She writes with such a generous and insightful eye about love, loneliness and artistic ambition, and has redrawn the lines that connect people in fiction through the most modern and unlikely of settings, the home share. * Jess Walter * Super Host isn' t just a charming, compulsively readable, romantically suspenseful novel about a lonely man who gets himself emotionally enmeshed with a series of short-term tenants. Kate Russo' s wise and funny debut also has a lot to say about the courage it takes to start over in the middle of your life. It' s a joy from start to finish. * Tom Perrotta *
Kate Russo grew up in Maine in the US and now divides her time between there and the UK. She has an M. F. A. in painting from the Slade School of Fine Art and exhibits in both the UK and US.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781472270023
Published: 14 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Tinder Press
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Weight: 41g
Pages: 368

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