Men Giving Money, Women Yelling: Intersecting Stories
by Alice Mattison
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Men Giving Money, Women Yelling is Alice Mattisons latest collection in which the characters lives are told in tales that overlap or echo one another. At the center of the stories is Denny Ring, a young man nobody quite knows. Other characters include John Corey, a contractor who renovates old houses in New Haven, Connecticut; his younger brother Eugene, a volunteer at a soup kitchen; and his older brother Cameron, who is a lawyer specializing in obnoxious law. Johns assistant, Tom, is in show more love with his former English teacher, Ida Feldman, and Charlotte LoPresti, a social worker who interviews the Corey brothers and their aged father, is friends with Pam Shepherd, a social worker whos in charge of the house for psychiatric patients that John and Tom are renovating. show lessTags
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An exceptional collection of stories follow characters involved in the myriad little complexities of love, marriage and family. Tightly written, humorous and touching.
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Alice Mattison teaches fiction in the Bennington Writers Seminars.
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