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Kate Russo
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Depuis que sa femme l'a quitté et que sa fille vole de ses propres ailes, Bennett Driscoll, autrefois peintre à succès, a décidé de mettre en location sur AirBed sa maison devenue trop grande pour lui. Il s'est retranché dans l'atelier au fond du jardin avec la nette impression de faire du surplace. Est-ce l'image d'Alicia, par la fenêtre, qui le renvoie à sa propre solitude? Celle d'Emma à ses obsessions et à ses angoisses d'artiste? Ou celle de Kirstie à son incapacité à rebondir?Sa rencontre avec Claire, serveuse dans un bar à vins de Soho, est peut-être l'occasion de faire un pas en avant; encore faut-il lui expliquer pourquoi il se sent comme un étranger dans sa propre maison.
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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 fifty-five, his wife has left him, he hasn't sold a painting in two years, and 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 list his house on the popular vacation rental site, AirBed. A stranger now in his own home, with his daughter, Mia, off at art school, and any new relationships fizzling out at best, Bennett struggles to find purpose in his day-to-day. That all changes when three different guests--lonely American Alicia; tortured artist Emma; and cautiously optimistic divorcée Kirstie--unwittingly unlock the pieces of himself that have been lost to him for too long. Warm, witty, and utterly humane, Super Host offers a captivating portrait of middle age, relationships, and what it truly means to take a new chance at life.
