Spending : a utopian divertimento / Mary Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, Mary, 1949-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women painters--Fiction.

Women painters.

Genre:

Erotic fiction.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

301 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Scribner, [1998]

Summary:

Monica Szabo, a middle-aged, moderately successful painter, encounters B, a wealthy commodities broker who collects her work. B volunteers to be her muse, offering her everything that male artists have always had to produce great art: time, space, money, and sex. (He is ever willing to pose for her.). Soon after she and B become lovers, Monica starts work on a controversial new series of paintings based on her perception that the deposed Christs of Renaissance art were not dead, but postorgasmic. The show of her new work, championed by the critics and picketed by the Christian Right, makes her a media darling and makes her rich. B, meanwhile, suffers a sudden loss of fortune. Will she takes care of him as he took care of her? How does he handle his loss of power? How does she? What happens in the bedroom?

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0684839458

OCLC:

37608313