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An erotic and highly sensible new book about women, art, love-making, and money from the award-winning author of the New York Times best vendors Final Obligations and Men and Angels. Newsweek has called Mary Gordon a "humane, masterly novelist whose great present is making us value her people." Monica Szabo, a middle-aged, moderately successful painter, encounters B, a wealthy commodities broker who gathers her work. B volunteers to be her muse, offering her anything that male painters have always got to produce great art: time, space, money, and love-making. (He's even willing to pose on her behalf.)Immediately after she and B become lovers, Monica starts focus on a controversial new series of paintings predicated on her understanding that the deposed Christs of Renaissance art were not useless, but post orgasmic. The show of her new work, championed by the critics and picketed by the Christian Right, makes her a marketing darling and makes her wealthy. B, meanwhile, suffers a sudden loss of bundle of money. Will she manage him as he took care and attention of her? How can he cope with his lack of power? How can she? What goes on in the bed room? Passionate, provocative, and highly interesting, Spending shows Gordon's maverick feminism, her amazing wit, and her unique perspectives on art, money, men, love-making and the desires of women.
