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Super Host

✍ Scribed by Kate Russo


Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2021
Tongue
en-US
Weight
290 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0593189930

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✦ Synopsis


A deeply funny and shrewdly observed debut novel about being lost in the very place you know by heart
Bennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize-nominated artist who was once a rising star. Now, at age 55, his wife has left him, he hasn't sold a painting in two years, and hasn't been reviewed in five. His gallery wants to stop selling his work, claiming they'll have more value retrospectively...when he's dead. So, left with a large West London home and no income, he's forced to move into his artist's studio in the back garden and rent out his house on the popular vacation rental site, AirBed.
A stranger now in his own home, money is finally coming in again and Bennett is getting some of the best reviews of his career, albeit on AirBed. But with his daughter Mia off at art school and any new relationships fizzling out at best, he struggles to find purpose in his day-to-day. That all changes when three different guests--lonely American Alicia; tortured artist Emma; and...


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