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Spending: A Utopian Divertimento
Gordon dares to be unfashionable and demonstrate that some lucky people can have it all. -- starred, "Publishers Weekly"
Monica Szabo is a middle-aged, struggling painter and mother who encounters a wealthy stock broker who soon becomes her lover and takes wonderful care of her. Shortly thereafter, her artwork makes her a media darling and very rich at the precise time that her lover suffers a reversal of fortune. What happens to a relationship that literally is on its head? Passionate, provocative, and highly intelligent, this new novel displays Gordon's wit and perspective to their best effect.
Monica Szabo is a middle-aged, struggling painter and mother who encounters a wealthy stock broker who soon becomes her lover and takes wonderful care of her. Shortly thereafter, her artwork makes her a media darling and very rich at the precise time that her lover suffers a reversal of fortune. What happens to a relationship that literally is on its head? Passionate, provocative, and highly intelligent, this new novel displays Gordon's wit and perspective to their best effect.
Book Details
- Publisher: Scribner Book Company
- Publish Date: Mar 11st, 1999
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.57in - 5.53in - 0.72in - 0.86lb
- EAN: 9780684852041
- Categories: • Literary• Women
About the Author
Mary Gordon is also the author of the novels The Company of Women, The Rest of Life, and The Other Side, as well as a critically acclaimed memoir, The Shadow Man. Winner of the Lila Acheson Wallace Reader's Digest Writer's Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 1996 O. Henry Prize for best short story, she teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City.
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What people are saying
Alyssa Harad
@alyssaharad
2 years
Alyssa Harad is an author.
@aliner In Mary Gordon’s terrific realist fantasy SPENDING, the main character paints a series of male nudes based on famous paintings of Christ that are, she realizes, post-coital rather than dead. She calls the series SPENT MEN. :)
Praise for this book
Rebecca Radner San Francisco Chronicle Book Review Creamy, witty prose.
Susan Lowell The Plain Dealer By turns as subtle as Colette, as funny as a slapstick comedy, and as steamy as a bodice-ripper, Spending is Mary Gordon's most seriously entertaining novel yet.
Dan Cryer Newsday Gordon has created a believable artist....The book [has] a remarkable sensuousness...the bedroom scenes resound with the loveliness and mystery of the human form. Meals become vivid exercises in sense-enhancement.
Sandy Asirvatham Time Out New York [A] smart, seductive book...with an abundance of wit and charm.
What people are saying
Alyssa Harad
@alyssaharad
2 years
Alyssa Harad is an author.
@aliner In Mary Gordon’s terrific realist fantasy SPENDING, the main character paints a series of male nudes based on famous paintings of Christ that are, she realizes, post-coital rather than dead. She calls the series SPENT MEN. :)