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Super Host

作者:Kate Russo
出版社:
出版日期:2020年06月09日
ISBN:9780593189931
語言:繁體中文
售價:399元

  人到中年被迫歸零,落魄藝術家的生命之旅。
 
  貝奈特(Bennett Driscoll),一名榮獲透納奬提名的藝術家,曾經的藝術新星,如今卻被藝廊嫌棄。他已經超過兩年沒賣出一幅畫,藝廊想要終止合作,打算等他百年之後再來辦回顧展。年過半百的貝奈特無奈離開,回到自己西倫敦郊區的房子。
 
  毫無收入,五十五歲的他,還得面對離婚後的現實與十八歲的女兒。索性搬到後院的工作室,把屋子租給旅客,賺取收入。房子被放到知名短期租屋網AIRBED,開啟貝奈特人生的另一段旅程。過去他緊追著衛報,查閱關於他藝術作品的評論,如今他只在網上看每則租屋好評與回饋,一心想成為超級房東。
 
  從小有名氣的藝術家,變成在自家民宿拿著刷子與漂白水洗刷床單的管家,貝奈特有好一陣子都找不到人生的方向。但是隨著三個旅客的入住:孤獨的美國女子艾莉西亞、年輕藝術家艾瑪、和剛離婚的克絲蒂,貝奈特發現自己內心被遺忘的角落,逐漸重見天日。
 
  《Super Host》是個充滿機智與溫暖的故事,精彩刻劃出中年生活的心境與人際關係的樣貌,讓讀者重拾改變人生的希望。

  (文/博客來編譯)
  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.


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