Stay Up with Hugo Best is her first novel. We all had a piece and a small plastic cup of champagne and then went to the oyster bar on the corner to do our real drinking. Genres: Humour, Coming-of-Age Fiction, Humorous Fiction. A chance meeting with Hugo Best after the end of his television series leads to a weekend away for June Bloom. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Andrea Somers is a character in Neighbours. I had never seen her before—she wasn’t on staff—and I wondered if Hugo hadn’t either. However, my thanks to whoever sent it in return for an honest review! I found it uncompromising, expertly crafted and actually quite moving. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Confident and insightful, Somers’ book is, in short, an admonition to be careful what you wish for ... Somers has written her protagonist with a sharp eye for the type of ennui endemic to a swath of the millennial generation ... looks at dissatisfaction and loneliness, and how money and fame do not necessarily stave off those uncomfortable feelings. We don't claim any rights. ( Log Out / The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Read Stay Up with Hugo Best by Erin Somers full novel Online. He teared up when he got to his loyal fans, and Bony led the band in a sentimental version of the theme music. 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. June Bloom is twenty-nine, broke, and an aspiring comedy writer.
Both June and Hugo reminded me of Willy Loman because Erin Somers explores in sexual, physical, intellectual, emotional and social ways who we are and how we construct ourselves for others and use our attributes to manipulate others for our own benefit. Stay Up with Hugo Best, it read in the show’s font. Cover. There are 7 professionals named "Hugo Somers", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. The taping was over by late afternoon and there was a huge white sheet cake for the staff. The new host would hire his own writers, and those writers would hire their own assistant. At the end of the hour he stood in front of the swaying purple curtain and thanked his producers, his band, and his bandleader, Bony Suarez, for taking so many years of his jokes with such élan. The most junior writer, a Harvard grad named Julian who was three years younger than me, was at his elbow. “Just an old friend.”, Bony nodded.
He was rubbing his bald head with one hand and holding a beer in the other. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. All rights reserved to the book's author and publisher. There’s no unexpected ending here, but rather a mature, sometimes saddening and always fascinating exposition of the self through June Bloom’s first person narrative. I am not responsible for the republishing of the content found on this blog on other Web sites or media without my permission.
The setting has scalpel sharp observations and descriptions of all social classes and especially aspirational America. A debut novel about a young writers’ assistant on a late night comedy show and what transpires when she accepts an invitation from its enigmatic host to spend a long weekend at his mansion in Connecticut.
Erin lives in New York with her husband and daughter. Somers’ deft handling of the juxtaposition between self-defeating pessimism and the heartfelt need for human connection would be impressive for any established author; for a debut, it’s a tantalizing promise of incisive works to come. I was out of a job after that day. - Kirkus "Somers sidesteps the predictable path the reader might expect this weekend to take, instead meandering into subtle, surprising territory.
. Their personalities, balanced alongside the inclusion of real people and events gave a credibility to the text that enhanced its themes because I could relate to them as a reader. Within the strict temporal boundaries she has set herself, Somers depicts two equally lost souls unable to connect on a deep level. Erin Somers writes with a sassy style incorporating acerbic wit and dark humour with an eye for humanity that makes for a highly entertaining read in Stay Up With Hugo Best. I swirled the fluid in my glass. Published by Tinder Press in paperback on 23rd January 2020 Stay Up With Hugo Best is available in all formats through the publisher links here. He knew me only barely. I do not store information about your visit to this blog other than to analyze content performance through the use of cookies, which you can turn off at anytime by modifying your Internet browser’s settings.
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