Mary Gordon

I picked up Spending by Mary Gordon a few weeks ago and one hundred pages in - I am torn with this book - do I like it or do I want to continue reading it? It started out extremely interesting - the idea of a mildly successful contemporary female artist getting a chance to experience having a muse. It is a play on the idea that throughout society male artists have had the advantage of having female muses to fuel their work and make it stronger while women have been historically at a real disadvantage (no male models, drawing from sculptures, no one to clean their brushes, fix their meals, tell them their art is amazing, etc. ). Having recently read the Russell Banks book, a fictional biography on the artist Rockwell Kent - I had a mild look into the life of a male artists. This whole muse concepts seems really old school. I guess I will run along a read a few more pages.