THE GREAT MAN, by Kate Christensen

(originally posted on August 16, 2007)

At the time of this writing I'm in the midst of a serious Christensen binge (her previous novel, THE EPICURE'S LAMENT, is brilliant in staggering quantities.) This, her fourth novel, is a multi-viewpoint extravaganza of strong women in their 70s and 80s bound by complex love of Oscar Feldman, a notorious artist dead for several years and still the main character of the book. Sumptuous and tart - with lots of mouth-watering recipes and odes to living well in old age - THE GREAT MAN well deserves the many accolades heaped upon it of late.