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Alice Mattison

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Alice Mattison's new novel, WHEN WE ARGUED ALL NIGHT, will be published by Harper Perennial as a paperback original on June 12, 2012. She's the author of 5 other novels, most recently NOTHING IS QUITE FORGOTTEN IN BROOKLYN, 4 collections of stories, and a book of poems. Many of her stories have appeared in The New Yorker and other magazines. She grew up in Brooklyn, New York and has lived for a long time in New Haven, Connecticut. She teaches fiction writing in the Bennington Writing Seminars, the low-residency MFA program at Bennington College in Vermont.


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Average rating: 2.96 · 860 ratings · 222 reviews · 13 distinct works
The Book Borrower
2.65 of 5 stars 2.65 avg rating — 434 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions
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Nothing Is Quite Forgotten ...
2.93 of 5 stars 2.93 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions
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In Case We're Separated: Co...
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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Hilda and Pearl: A Novel
3.16 of 5 stars 3.16 avg rating — 70 ratings — 3 editions
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Men Giving Money, Women Yel...
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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2.79 of 5 stars 2.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
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Great Wits
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1988
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When We Argued All Night: A...
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — expected publication 2012 — 2 editions
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Field of Stars
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1992
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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After A Funeral
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Stet by Diana Athill
Stet: An Editor's Life
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Safekeeping by Abigail Thomas
Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
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Treasure Island!!!
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Pastoralia by George Saunders
Pastoralia
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Transformations
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“When a man I like touches my arm or my hair, I want to know if he'll touch the center of me, and whatever I learned in school--I went to school for a long time--I seem to believe that my center can be reached best with the tip of a penis....”
― Alice Mattison, Men Giving Money, Women Yelling: Intersecting Stories
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