Stay Up with Hugo Best by Erin Somers
One of Vogue's Best Books of 2019 June Bloom is twenty-nine, broke, and an aspiring comedy writer. Hugo Best is a beloved late-night TV icon and notorious womanizer 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). When June Bloom, an assistant on the late-night comedy show, Stay Up with Hugo Best, runs into Hugo himself at an open mic following his unexpected retirement, she finds herself fielding a surprising invitation: Hugo asks June to come to his mansion in Greenwich for the long Memorial Day weekend. No funny business, he insists. Incisive, funny, and tinged with melancholy, this timely novel follows two lost but clever souls desperate for connection (Entertainment Weekly). June, in need of a job and money, but harboring the remains of a childhood crush on the charming older comedian and former role model, is confident she can handle herself. She accepts. As the weekend unfolds and the enigmatic Hugo gradually reveals appealingly vulnerable facets to his personality, their dynamic proves to be much more complicated and less predictable than June imagined. A witty and subtle commentary on sex, power, and social politics (Refinery 29) and an outstanding comedic debut (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Stay Up with Hugo Best announces a gloriously irreverent, bold, and winning new voice in fiction.
Somers, Erin: - Erin Somers's 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 Beacon, New York, with her husband and daughter. Stay Up with Hugo Best is her first novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781982102357 |
| ISBN 10 | 1982102357 |
| Title | Stay Up with Hugo Best |
| Author | Erin Somers |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 2019-04-02 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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