Bibliograph

Men giving money, women yelling, intersecting stories, Alice Mattison

Type

Label

Men giving money, women yelling, intersecting stories, Alice Mattison

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Men giving money, women yelling

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Alice Mattison

Sub title

intersecting stories

Summary

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 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

Target audience

adult

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