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Men Giving Money, Women Yelling - by Alice Mattison (Paperback)

Men Giving Money, Women Yelling - by  Alice Mattison (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The lives of the men and women who populate this collection of wry whimsical stories quietly interweave as they go about their daily business, whether they're renovating a house, volunteering in a soup kitchen, or falling in love. Inventive, vivid, witty, and unmistakably real, this is short fiction at its finest.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><em>Men Giving Money, Women Yelling</em> 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.

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