Men Giving Money, Women Yelling: Intersecting Stories
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Book Overview
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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0688161065
ISBN13:9780688161064
Release Date:June 1998
Publisher:Harper Perennial
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"
Customer Reviews
5 ratings
Brilliant
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
The best of dozens of short story collections I have read in recent years. The subtitle "Intersecting Stories" doesn't do justice to the work as a whole. I would call it a novel, many (though not all) of whose chapters could stand alone as stories. Works as a whole -- an important work of fiction by a superb writer.
Similar to Reading about Everyone in a Small Town
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
What a gem of a collection!! I was completely engaged in this group of short stories about the very interesting and yet ordinary people of this CT town. I think what is so lacking in writing these days is the description and action of normal people. There is a unity in everyday activities that the correct author can make poetic. Ms. Mattison describes how people are and can be in real life. I loved this compilation!
Thank God for Book Reviews
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
Thank God for book reviews! If I hadn't read a NY Times review of Alice Mattison's MEN GIVING MONEY, WOMEN YELLING, it is unlikely I would ever have discovered this engaging collection of interconnected stories. The characters appear to be leading ordinary lives but Mattison's insights are definately extraordinary. Beginning each new story, the reader is aware that the previous characters will appear in some way in the forthcoming stories, making the collection a delightful puzzle.
Sad themes, yet fun to read
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
I never would have picked up this book on my own. My book club read it and the average rating was an eight. While I was reading it, I thought that it was going to be a flat discussion once the club met. Boy was I wrong!! I would definitely recommend it to book clubs. We all enjoyed discussing the book and most of us grew to appreciate it even more after our discussion. Alice Mattison did a wonderful job intersecting these 15 stories. I loved how the characters kept reappearing. After finishing the book, for days I kept thinking about the characters. I wanted more and didn't want it to end.
It's so good!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
The first story in this collection ran in The New Yorker a couple of years ago, and I liked it so much I clipped it out and showed it to all my friends. The book is great - it somehow makes you happy to be reading it, even though some of the themes are sad. Mattison gives the characters a kind of universal daffyness that is present in modern life, but unheralded. And the linking is done really well, making it read more like a novel than like stories.
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