Men Giving Money, Women Yelling: Intersecting Stories - Softcover

Mattison, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0688161065 ISBN 13: 9780688161064

Publisher: William Morrow, 1998

Synopsis

"Men Giving Money, Women Yelling" is Alice Mattison's 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. John's assistant, Tom, is in 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 who's in charge of the house for psychiatric patients that John and Tom are renovating.

About this title

About the Author:

Alice Mattison is the award-winning author of four story collections and five novels, including Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn. She teaches fiction in the graduate writing program at Bennington College in Vermont and lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Synopsis:

A collection of short stories that revolves around New Haven, Connecticut, finds ordinary people coping with life as they run into and out of one another's lives.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0688161065
• ISBN 13: 9780688161064
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256