Great Books: Buy Me Love by Martha Cooley
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Please join us for the first Great Books, Great Conversations. In this newly launched series, we will be joined by Adelphi authors.
Our first selection is Buy Me Love by Martha Cooley, bestselling author and Professor Emerita of English at Adelphi University.
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In Buy Me Love, Cooley examines the unexpected aftermath of a lottery win by one of the novel’s two main protagonists, Ellen Portinari, a 52-year-old freelance editor and aspiring poet living on her own in New York City. After learning the ticket she’s purchased on a whim is the winner for a $100 million jackpot, Ellen realizes she must reassess her life. Meanwhile a young, alienated visual artist, Blair Talpa, realizes she, too, must do things very differently—with unexpected consequences.
Great Books, Great Conversations is hosted by:
- Jacqueline Jones La Mon, professor and vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion
- Sybile Val ’99, MD.
Dr. Jones LaMon and Dr. Val will host a book discussion featuring Adelphi authors on an ongoing basis.
About the Author
Martha Cooley is the author of three novels—Buy Me Love, The Archivist, a national bestseller also published in a dozen foreign markets, and Thirty-Three Swoons—and a memoir, Guesswork. She co-translated Antonio Tabucchi’s story collection Time Ages in a Hurry. Her essays, short fiction, and co-translations have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books and numerous leading literary journals. She is the former director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Adelphi University. Prior to Adelphi, she taught for fifteen years in the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in Castiglione del Terziere, Italy.