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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.
Passionate, provocative, and highly engaging, Spending displays Gordon's maverick feminism, her extraordinary wit, and her unique perspectives on art, money, men, sex -- and the desires of women.
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Monica Szabo has, if not everything, rather more than many divorced women in their early 50s can claim. A New York artist with enough talent, success, and money to live on, she also has two interesting college-age daughters and an intellectually distinguished, morally heroic, and infinitely flexible male companion, Mikey. The only problem is, Mikey is a dog. Entrancing a gallery crowd in Provincetown, Monica conducts a whimsical outreach for her mutt's human counterpart. Male artists have long had their muses, she poses, but female artists have no such equivalent. "Where, I ask you, lovers of the arts, where are the male Muses?" Much to her surprise, a looker of the right age and sexual predilections offers himself up to her in front of her adoring audience. And this paragon of patronage not only lives up to her large-scale demands--advancing when she calls, retreating on command, taking her to places she's never been (in both senses of the phrase)--but he's really rich to boot.
Yet Spending proves more than a Harlequin romance for the intelligentsia. Gordon gives her heroine a strong, self-amused voice and a fine mind, and B (as the lover is called throughout) gives her the space, time, money, sex, croissants, and property she needs to prosper. Did I mention that B also becomes the model for Monica's newest body of work? "I sat in front of him, drawing with a kind of fever. He never woke up. I knew what I wanted to do: a series of paintings of postorgasmic men based on the great Italian Renaissance portraits of dead Christs. I even knew what I'd call the series: SPENT MEN, AFTER THE MASTERS."
Monica worries incessantly about her new spot of luck--engaging, for example, in a supersophisticated conversation with one daughter about whether or not B is turning her into a whore. "If you call yourself a sex worker," Rachel poses, "you don't have to get freaked out." Needless to say, this isn't much of a consolation. Though it advertises itself as highbrow erotica, Spending is at its best in scenes between females, and in those in which we see art through Monica's eyes. A Piero della Francesca is one of her favorites "because of the egg hanging over the virgin's head ... I envied painters who operated out of a symbolic universe because it gave them an excuse to put in such wonderful, yet nutty objects: who would think of hanging an egg from a ceiling when you're painting something high class and serious like a heavenly court? But say it's a symbol of the Resurrection, and you get the fun of painting the shape and the texture, and you get narrative to boot." B, it turns out, is Spending's problem--he's far too perfect, even after he loses $4 million. (Reader, don't get too worried. There's easy money waiting in the wings.) In her acknowledgments, Gordon admits that the commodities market was an unknown entity to her, and when B is onstage it's important to keep the subtitle, A Utopian Divertimento, in mind.
Customer Reviews:
Art, Sex, Strong Women, and Charlie Rose........2007-04-09
Like art? Like sex? Like strong women? Like Charlie Rose? They all come together in Mary Gordon's novel "Spending (A Utopian Divertimento)." Monica is a painter living in 1990's New York and Cape Cod who struggles with the artistic and human challenges facing us all: family, love, work, sex, and self expression. By happenstance, she meets B, a man who collects her work, and they spend the next three years together - he supporting and posing for her, she painting and supporting him. Having been a `poor' artist who teaches on the side to make a buck, she's not at all certain how she feels about B lavishing his fortune on her. Her feelings about money and the class system are at the heart of the story, but seem to get lost along the way as she acquires success and money of her own. By the end of the story, I wondered where the anti-capitalist artist had disappeared to.
Gordon writes about art and sex with a sure hand. Her descriptions of Monica's artistic process are so well-honed as to make the reader truly feel what it's like to create a work of art that will be seen (and judged) by others. Her depictions of Monica's and B's sex life are lively, thrilling, and vivid without being offensive. Especially humorous are the scenes involving her high-school nemesis, leading to her appearance on Charlie Rose's show.
The story has some twists and turns including one near the end when the financial tables are turned. However, the story seems to run out of steam and limps to not much of a conclusion. Be forewarned: if you're looking for action and a fast pace, this is not the book for you. Most of the story is told in summary, not scene, like a play which is primarily exposition, not action. That said, "Spending" is an enjoyable read about unique, well-drawn characters whose flaws and imperfections mirror our own.
Best read in the last couple of years for me..........2007-03-24
As an art history major who works for a publisher the subject matter of this book was instantly attractive. What was the wonderful surprise was Gordon's writing style. I savored every word, and will be seeking out and reading her other works. Bravo!
A thoroughly enjoyable read!.......2007-01-24
This is the beautifully written story of Monica, a fifty year old divorced mother of two who's a self-proclaimed 'moderately successful' painter. When she meets her muse - B. - a very wealthy man who adores Monica's talent and offers her the financial freedom to pursue her next artistic project, she agonizes over whether to accept his offer. Because Monica and B. are lovers, she worries an arrangement involving money would make her a prostitute. The poetic prose notwithstanding, I didn't like this book at first. I found Monica's long-winded agony over whether to accept B.'s assistance overly indulgent and annoying. After all, it's hard to like a woman who complains that her handsome, rich boyfriend wants to make her life easier. The beginning of their relationship had an obnoxious, sado-masochistic quality. Monica treated B. as an object; she wouldn't even reveal his name! But as the story developed and the characters grew, I found myself increasingly caught up with Monica, her growth as an artist, as a mother, and as B.'s lover. By the time I finished reading this book, I had that thoroughly satisfied feeling that comes with having read a wonderfully satisfying story.
loved this book.......2006-10-29
It has been a long time since I've read a novel that has characters that are REAL. Monica may be a self-absorbed artist as one reviewer said, but so what? Aren't we all a little self-absorbed, hoping that people will like us or our work, and disappointed when they don't? Anyone who can't admit this is a liar!
It was a delight to follow Monica's thought processes as she goes back and forth on whether to accept B's money, whether to sleep with him or not, how she turned the subject of her art over and over in her mind, and to read her commentaries about motherhood and her daughters. It all rang AUTHENTIC to me.
And a big thank you to Mary Gordon for writing about a woman of a certain age (THANK YOU FOR NOT MAKING HER UNDER 50!) who truly enjoys sex, relishes the passions of life, whether it's art or food or a man, and is not ashamed!
Overblown & Ostentatious.......2006-08-08
Having read the book and then several of the reviews on this site, I get the sense that many readers who praised the book did so because the subjects covered in the book were "important" and the author appealed to a sense of left wing intelligence in the readers. In other words, a reader can feel smart and superior simply by virtue of having read the book.
You should know that I consider myself a fairly liberal, thinking person, and I had no issues with the topics or the position the author took on the issues of feminism, sexual relationships, religion, etc. I was neither offended nor impressed with the subject matter. However, I was insulted by the fact that an author would think that merely incoporating these topics is sufficient to warrant a positive reaction from readers.
I found the characters either flat (B, Peggy, Rachel, Sara) or, in the case of Monica (the main character), too exagerated and inconsistent to be believeable. On the one hand, Monica is portrayed as the prototypical, self-absorbed artist whose work can never truly be appreciated because no one else understands her work at the core. And no sooner has she finished railing against the uninformed public, then she falls for a lover who views art as a commodity...? Please.
The writing style is pompous and left me wishing Gordon had taken herself less seriously. The book will make for an interesting discussion with my reading group (hence the 2 stars), but it did not leave me wanting to read more of her work. Nor would I recommend it to others.
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The immense popularity of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series is due in large part to the development of his characters. In The Doll's House, the second book of the Sandman magnum opus, Gaiman continues to build the foundation for the larger story, introducing us to more of the Dream King's family of the Endless.
The Sandman returns to his kingdom of the Dreaming after nearly a century of imprisonment, finding several things out of place; most importantly, an anomaly called a dream vortex has manifested itself in the form of a young girl who unknowingly threatens to rip apart the Dreaming. And there's the smaller matter of a few nightmares having escaped. Among them is Gaiman's creepiest creation: the Corinthian, a serial killer with a miniature set of teeth in each eye socket. Because later volumes concentrate so much on human relationships with Gaiman's signature fair for fantasy and mythology, it is sometimes easy to forget that the Sandman series started out as a horror comic. This book grabs you and doesn't let you forget that so easily. --Jim Pascoe
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The immense popularity of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series is due in largepart to the development of his characters. In The Doll's House, the second book of the Sandman magnum opus, Gaiman continues to build the foundation for the larger story, introducing us to more of the Dream King's family of the Endless.The Sandman returns to his kingdom of the Dreaming after nearly a century of imprisonment, finding several things out of place; most importantly, an anomaly called a dream vortex has manifested itself in the form of a young girl who unknowingly threatens to rip apart the Dreaming. And there's the smaller matter of a few nightmares having escaped. Among them is Gaiman's creepiest creation: the Corinthian, a serial killer with a miniature set of teeth in each eye socket. Because later volumes concentrate so much on human relationships with Gaiman's signature fair for fantasy and mythology, it is sometimes easy to forget that the Sandman series started out as a horror comic. This book grabs you and doesn't let you forget that so easily. --Jim Pascoe
Customer Reviews:
world building.......2007-10-08
What will continue in third trade paperback, started here.
After we saw capturing of Morpheus in first volume, it was about time to show us something else. And here Gaiman kicks in. He veawes a tale of dreams and mysteries, he tells a story of growing up and nightmares that lurk beyond. We find modern epic in these pages, filled with interesting characters, dark villany (whichi is somewhat lighter here than in the first paperback) and old fashiond heroes. We are learning of Dreams past, friendship gained and loves lost.
In this volume you'll find one of the best stories that Gaiman ever written, story that spans centuries of lifetime but loses its sense for humanity, for ups and downs of human intelligence, and essential loneliness that rest in the hearts of every sentient being out there.
Maybe somewhat rough on the edges, and even too mundane (grand epics, clashes of entities will follow later up) in its finishing touch, Doll's house still remains one of the best Sandmans ever written.
Great!.......2007-09-04
If you're new to Gaiman, you might not be used to his style but this volume is a great accompaniment to Vol I - Preludes & Nocturnes. It follows Rose, who was first introduced in Vol I through uncovering secrets to the whereabouts of her missing brother & meeting long, lost relatives. A truly great graphic novel.
Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03
There are several threads in the Doll's House. Morpheus must clean house as he realises several of his more important servants are missing. He must deal with two of them who have set about creating their own Sandman using a dead man, and his live wife and child. Another is keynote speaker at a serial killers convention.
On a lighter note, Dream and Death are amused by Hob when they find him declaiming he will not die, so Dream offers to meet him for a drink every 100 years to see if he has changed his mind, and realises that they have become friends.
The Dolls House Review.......2007-08-05
I can't say enough good things about Neil Gaiman. His imagination is unparalelled. Wonderfully written and illustrated.
Love it!.......2007-03-31
Neil Gaiman has an amazing imagination. I love all of his books that I have read so far. American Gods, Anansi Boys, Neverwhere, and now the Sandman series. Fabulous! The creativity and beautiful visuals never cease to amaze me.
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In his excellent novel The Wreck of The River of Stars, Michael Flynn looks back on the romantic Age of Sail: the second, high-tech Age of Sail, when spaceships with vast magnetic sails rode the solar winds across the immense ocean of space, and the greatest of the luxury spaceliners was The River of Stars. But the second Age of Sail is dead: the magnetic sails all were struck, and the spaceships all were retrofitted with the new Farnsworth fusion drive. Once a legend, The River of Stars is now a tramp cargo freighter, plying the outer planets with a scanty crew of men and women with questionable pasts, private agendas, and more than a little interpersonal friction.
When a bizarre failure disables the Farnsworth engines driving The River of Stars, the crew has a problem no Earthly sailor ever faced: their ports don't stay put. If The River of Stars doesn't arrive on schedule, Jupiter will be somewhere else in its enormous orbit. That means the damaged ship will speed out of the solar system and drift forever among the stars. The crew's only hope appears to be the magnetic sail. But recreating a long-gone high-tech sail isn't the worst problem this motley crew faces. To survive, they must achieve something even more herculean: they must overcome their own intricately entangled fears, hatreds, power struggles, and romantic disasters. --Cynthia Ward
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Michael Flynn has written the best SF in the tradition of Robert A. Heinlein of the last decade. His major work was the Firestar sequence, a four-book future history. "As Robert A. Heinlein did and all too few have done since, Michael Flynn writes about the near future as if he'd been there and was bringing back reports of what he'd seen," said Harry Turtledove. Now, in this sweeping standalone epic of the spaceways, Flynn grows again in stature, with an SF novel worthy of the master himself. Indeed, if Heinlein's famous character, the space-faring poet Rhysling, had ever written a novel, this would be it.This is a story of the glory that was. In the days of the great sailing ships in the mid-21st century, when magnetic sails drew cargo and passengers alike to every corner of the Solar System, sailors had the highest status of all spacemen, and the crew of the luxury liner The River of Stars, the highest among all sailors. But development of the Farnsworth fusion drive doomed the sailing ships and now The River of Stars is the last of its kind, retrofitted with engines, her mast vestigial, her sails unraised for years. An ungainly hybrid, she operates in the late years of the century as a mere tramp freighter among the outer planets, and her crew is a motley group of misfits. Stepan Gorgas is the escapist executive officer who becomes captain. Ramakrishnan Bhatterji is the chief engineer who disdains him. Eugenie Satterwaithe, once a captain herself, is third officer and, for form's sake, sailing master. When an unlikely and catastrophic engine failure strikes The River, Bhatterji is confident he can effect repairs with heroic engineering, but Satterwaithe and the other sailors among the crew plot to save her with a glorious last gasp for the old ways, mesmerized by a vision of arriving at Jupiter proudly under sail. The story of their doom has the power, the poetry, and the inevitability of a Greek tragedy. This is a great science fiction novel, Flynn's best yet.
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Robert A. Heinlein meets Patrick O'Brian in deep space.
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Maybe science fiction has not died.......2007-07-20
I read scifi for decades and then stopped. Too many brain-dead umpteen-part series with juvenile authors drawing cheap cartoons in their own heads.
This book, all by itself, restored my faith that Asimov, Heinlein, and Bradbury were not a dead end. Mr. Flynn has constructed a story with the sort of tragic inevitability an ancient Greek poet might envy. Strung on the ribs of a seamless technical logic of hardest science fiction is a minor epic of the grace, hubris, brilliance, and stupidity of humankind. This novel is a stunning achievement. It is literature.
I have no idea why certain people don't seem to "get it." Your Mileage May Vary, I guess. I suspect that our attention spans may have all been corroded by commercial media breathlessly racing toward the next commercial; the next cheap paperback.
All I know for sure is that this book goes on my shelf alongside "Gravity's Rainbow." I look forward to reading Mr. Flynn's subsequent books.
Classic Science Fiction Dramatic Tragedy.......2007-01-06
Flynn continues to develop a reputation as an excellent near-future science fiction writer in the vein of Robert Heinlein and Charles Sheffield. "Wreck Of The River Of Stars" is a meticulously-written tragedy set 80 years in the future, in the same alternate history as his "Firestar" series (thus such references as "hobartium" and the spaceship "Forrest Calhoun").
The MS River Of Stars is a hybrid - formerly the jewel of the sailing fleet, when magnetic sail drives were the rage in the `40s and `50s. Now the age of sails, and the romance and status that went with traveling or crewing such a vessel, is long past. 30 years after "The Riv" made its grand debut the ship has been retrofitted with simple fusion drives and been relegated to tramp steamer status, barely plying enough trade to keep afloat (no pun intended). Its magnetic sail and mast have been long stowed, large sections of the interior have been abandoned or stripped for resale, and some members of the crew pine for the glory days of the sail. When two of the four fusion engines fail, the lack of parts and resources have engineering staff scrambling to repair them in time to begin deceleration at Jupiter. The accident that destroyed the engines has also left communications disabled, and small but steady magnetic drag may be pulling the ship off course into a chaotic area of the Asteroid Belt. A portion of the crew, nostalgic for the days of sail, are blinded by their glorious vision of entering the Jovian system under sail and begin a project to attempt to deploy the sail, unbeknownst to the captain. Then throw in a not-quite-sentient central ship's computer that is beginning to show signs of "CyberAlzheimer's". What makes this novel really stand out is the interaction of the "Middle System" crew, a wildly varied mixture of ethnic and religious backgrounds, spaceborn "snakes" and "wellsprung" humans, orphans, higher and lower social classes, and sexual preference, all casualties of Earth's boom into space at the closure of Flynn's "Firestar" series. Flynn's intricate interpersonal relationships between the characters, fueled by the growing fear that their ship may be fatally injured, draw the reader into the story much more than the efforts to save the ship. Flynn spends a decent amount of time with each character, developing their personalities, likes and dislikes, fears, hatreds, and phobias in a way that gives the reader insight into how these characters interact, or are likely to interact.
A great example not just of science fiction, but character-driven science fiction of any kind. Highly recommended.
Classic in Our Time.......2006-12-25
It is a measure of my enthrallment in this book that I'm writing the review fully 100 pages before I've finished it. Though I know how it will already end... see: The title.
First I'd like to say that by no means should anyone be put off by this book being marketed as Science Fiction. To me Sci-Fi is all well and good, but I know many who feel that it is somehow a lesser form of literature. Do not let that stop you from reading... no not that... from experiencing this book. I've read hundreds approaching thousands of books in my time. From all time periods, from all genres, and from many varied authors. I can say with absolute authority that "The Wreck of the River of Stars" is has the best character development I've ever come across. If that isn't reason enough for you to read yet... I'll get to the thick of the rest presently.
First, on the writing. Michael Flynn's style is so effortlessly poetic that I've found myself marking pages for the statements he is making. Not just for their eloquence, but for their very keen insight into the workings of humanity, and the workings of the very specific kinds of human personalities in his book. Sometimes it feels a bit like reading a work by one of the great philosophers
His characters, as I've said, are simply incredible. There are no throwaway characters here. All are fully fleshed out human beings with very valid responses and thoughts of their own. Their bonds with the crew mates are as well thought out and executed as the reasons some don't like each other. NOTHING reads as false, nothing reads as contrived. There is deep logic at work here. One can even read as a Ship's AI evolves itself enough to make friends and decisions of it's own. Many authors will spend much of their time describing the make up and color of the environment... Flynn gets that out of the way in a few dozen pages. The only environment this novel has is the ship. After that Flynn spends most of his time wandering through and explaining the make up and architecture of his cast. Time VERY well spent. Half way through the book, through slow building awareness in the readers mind... these people simply become real.
On the Sci-Fi aspects. The book's characters are driven by the fact that their ship is broken. A unlikely event has disabled it completely. The cocky mechanic spends much of his time improvising repairs while the first officers worry if he can do it. Meanwhile the older members of the crew see a chance to once again raise the sails of 'the Riv' as they envision a heroic arrival for the old converted sailing ship. Some time is spent explaining why the ship is broke (The problem of WHY it happened is left for later), there is some time spent to map out the workings of sails and farnsworth engines... those being the two technologies used to drive the riv'. None of the technological talk ever seems out of place, we end up wanting to know how the ship works to understand the accomplishments and jobs of the characters in it.
There is intrigue, there is history, there is physics, there is humanity on full display. Warts and all as they say. The book may be the greatest Greek tragedy ever written by an Englishman.
In closing, if you love simply great literature... if you can appreciate character driven literature. Human literature, and all it's hubris, faults, and shining moments... this book is the one book that you keep looking for on your trips to the bookstore and online here at Amazon. THIS one.
Easily the greatest Science Fiction book I've come across on this planet... but even calling it that seems to do it an injustice.
A Superb Tale.......2006-03-26
To me, the mark of an excellent story is that, when you look up from the pages, you feel a slight disorientation as you adjust back to reality. So with Flynn's novel. I am a fan of Patrick O'Brien novels. If you are as well, you understand (unless you're a mariner skilled in the sailing of tall ships) when I say I am mostly lost within the technicalities of shrouds, stays, lines, etc. The important thing is that O'Brien understands so fundamentally the world he's describing that I can't help but be swept along and utterly convinced of that world. Again, so with the Wreck of the River of Stars. If you like Tales, and all that that term implies, and an immersive, moving experience from your Science Fiction, count on two things: one, that you will be chronically disappointed. Two, you will love this book. I have been an Amazon member for ten years, and have bought more books than I care to acknowledge. This is the first review I felt moved to write. I hope Mr. Flynn has more gems in store for us.
Fantastic and Unique Read.......2005-12-10
I'm not often compelled to write a review of any book, much less a science fiction title, since this is a genre I generally turn to only seeking light entertainment. I know there is much more, but I don't spend a lot of time looking... but this is really a great book by any standard.
The story of The Riv' is not about adventure, but about how people interact, respond, live, love, grow, and-- yes-- die, in the hermetic crucible of a dying ship and a dying tradition of sailing. I was skeptical that Flynn could make some of the characters real-- the cast-offs that operate The River of Stars are a motley lot-- but before long I was entranced and deep in Flynn's spell.
Flynn is not an author who shies away from the opportunities for philosophy and judgement that come with a third-person, omniscient storyteller. The tone of the narrative borders on the mystical, and while there are moments which are a bit overwritten, I found myself enjoying his often deep insights into the human condition and how the characters live their lives (and how we live ours). Great stuff, even if it is-- as Flynn himself promises in the beginning-- an unabashed tragedy.
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After his nearly 100 years of seeking, Franck's reflections on what really matters will help you to savor what truly matters in your own life.
"Could the meaning of being born human be, to become Human?"
This elegantly simple book of reflections presents the rich harvest of a lifetime of thinking, feeling, and seeing by an artist whose vital spirituality has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers and students through his art, books, and workshops.
The pithy, sometimes humorous, always wise contemplations reveal Franck's lifelong confrontation with the human in himself and others.
Originally jotted down as reflections for himself and close friends, Franck's insights will challenge you to consider new ways of experiencing your spiritual path and to savor what truly matters.
Customer Reviews:
Medicine for the Soul.......2006-03-08
_This is one of those rare recent books that you can say is truly medicine for the soul- without being trite. This is a powerful spiritual book, yet it is not without humor, tolerance of other traditions, and guts. The guts come in with the liberal criticism of modern greed, materialism, nihilism and the status quo. Franck especially has no patience for what he calls pseudo-spirituality, which can be recognised by sentimentality, proselytising, fanaticism, holier-than-thou delusions, spiritual tourism, and unconcern for the suffering and injustice inflicted on the great majority of other people in the world.
_Franck points out that true spirituality is based on first hand experience. This means that it is equally valid whether it is approached from Christian, Taoist, Buddhist, Jewish, or Sufi perspectives. This is not not spiritual tourism , it is recognising the Transcendent in all true paths. This is the basis of a vital, transcultural, transreligious spirituality.
_The author served as a doctor with Albert Schweitzer's staff in Africa- and it truly shows.
A Little Compendium on That Which Matters.......2006-01-12
This appears to be a reissue of a book of reflections previously titled "A Little Compendium on That Which Matters". Over the years I've given away many copies of this book to friends; you may be similarly moved to do so as well.
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