{"product_id":"spending-a-utopian-divertimento-9780684852041","title":"Spending: A Utopian Divertimento","description":"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. \u003cbr\u003e Passionate, provocative, and highly engaging, \u003ci\u003eSpending\u003c\/i\u003e displays Gordon's maverick feminism, her extraordinary wit, and her unique perspectives on art, money, men, sex -- and the desires of women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Gordon\u003c\/b\u003e is also the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Company of Women, The Rest of Life, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Other Side, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as a critically acclaimed memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow Man.\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50327057367314,"sku":"9780684852041","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d18f6628-c0a8-4bcf-b88a-110873133d88.jpg?v=1727709072","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/spending-a-utopian-divertimento-9780684852041","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}