4 cassettes / 4 hoursAbridgment Approved by the AuthorRead by Blair BrownPraise for the AudioBook: "Monica Szabo is an independent, sassy, and sarcastic artist . . . Blair Brown does a great job as Monica, evoking her fierce independence, her confusion, and her passion for both art and B. . . . This is a funny, sexy, ironic, and entertaining look at modern relationships." --BillboardAn erotic and highly intelligent novel from the award-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers Final Payments and Men and Angles.  Newsweek has called Mary Gordon a "humane, masterly novelist whose great gift is making us care about her people."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 artist have always had to produce great art: time, space, money, and sex.  He is even willing to pose for her.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.