Spending: A Utopian Divertimento
Mary Gordon
(Author)
Description
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.
Product Details
Price
$20.95
Publisher
Scribner Book Company
Publish Date
March 11, 1999
Pages
304
Dimensions
5.53 X 8.57 X 0.72 inches | 0.86 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780684852041
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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 Cit
Reviews
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.
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.
