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Alice Mattison

Biography

Alice Mattison

Alice Mattison grew up in Brooklyn and studied at Queens College and Harvard. Her collection of intersecting stories, Men Giving Money, Women Yelling, was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year. She is also the author of Hilda and Pearl and Field of Stars, two collections of stories, Great Wits< and The Flight of Andy Burns, and a collection of poems,Animals. She has been published in The New Yorker, Glimmer Train, Southern Humanities Review, North American Review, Boulevard, and theThreepenny Review. She resides in New Haven, Connecticut and teaches fiction in the Bennington Writing Seminars, a low-residency Master's program at Bennington College in Vermont. She is currently at work on her next novel as well as a new collection of short stories.

Alice Mattison

Books by Alice Mattison

by Alice Mattison - Fiction

Two young men are swimming naked in an Adirondack lake when they hear a motor, a car appears, and two women get out, one with an orange scarf around her head. It's 1936: New York is suffering through the Great Depression, and childhood friends Artie and Harold are unsure about everything --- jobs, lefty politics, women. After this time in the mountains, nothing will be quite the same.