Men Giving Money, Women Yelling: Intersecting Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780688161064)

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.

Author: Alice Mattison
ISBN-10: 0688161065
ISBN-13: 9780688161064
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Language: English
Published: 06/17/1998
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 08/09/1998 pg. 28