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Stay Up With Hugo Best Erin Somers

Stay Up With Hugo Best By Erin Somers

Stay Up With Hugo Best by Erin Somers


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Summary

A hilarious, razor sharp and poignant story for the #metoo age, about a 29-year-old comedy writer, an ageing chat show host and the weekend they spend together

Stay Up With Hugo Best Summary

Stay Up With Hugo Best: 'a devilishly fun ride' by Erin Somers

June Bloom is twenty-nine, broke, and an aspiring comedy writer.

Hugo Best is a beloved late-night chat show host - and notorious womaniser - who invites her to his mansion for Memorial Day Weekend.

This is the story of their four days together, a 'zippy... magnificent... devilishly fun ride' Vogue

Charting the four days June and TV icon Hugo Best spend together, Stay Up with Hugo Best is both a smart and timely exploration of sexual politics in the #MeToo age, and the hilarious and poignant story of one young woman's stumble into adulthood.

Stay Up With Hugo Best Reviews

Magnificent...a devilishly fun ride * Vogue *
A timely and engaging read * Woman & Home *
A must read for the #MeToo age * Daily Express *
I was honestly surprised to find so many funny one-liners... Erin Somers is a clear-eyed and clever young talent who has mastered the special art of dissection with affection * Carl Hiaasen *
Taut and incisive * New York Times *
Stay Up With Hugo Best is the best kind of novel: funny, easy to read, and deceptively weighty * Culturefly *
Our whole culture desperately needs Stay Up with Hugo Best. A book so relevant, and yet so incredibly funny * Gary Shteyngart *
On the surface, Somers' debut is light and breezy, but the narrative is deft, controlled, and deadly smart... An outstanding comedic debut * Kirkus Reviews *
Incisive, funny, and tinged with melancholy, the timely novel follows two lost but clever souls desperate for connection * Entertainment Weekly *
This is a winning debut * Publishers Weekly *
Hilarious and poignant, this is a timely exploration of sexual politics * Sheer Luxe *
It's cruel, sharp and totally irresistible * Strong Words *

About Erin Somers

Erin Somers' writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House Open Bar, Ploughshares, American Short Fiction, McSweeney's, the Cincinnati Review, and many other publications. She holds an MFA from the University of New Hampshire and was a 2016 NYC Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow and a 2016 Millay Colony resident. She lives in New York with her husband and daughter. Stay Up with Hugo Best is her first novel.

Additional information

GOR010271669
9781472268310
1472268318
Stay Up With Hugo Best: 'a devilishly fun ride' by Erin Somers
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Headline Publishing Group
20200123
272
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