Wedding of the Two-Headed Woman (34 page)

—The New Yorker

“Extraordinary.”

—Washington Post Book World

 

P
RAISE FOR
Hilda and Pearl

“Forgiving and wise,
Hilda and Pearl
is a memorable novel about love's resilience.”

—New York Times Book Review

“Engaging . . . intuitive. . . . Mattison takes no shortcuts, but leads us down the long road her characters travel in learning to accept and endure.”

—Boston Globe

“Small fireworks of surprise detonate at intervals in this compelling narrative.”

—Publishers Weekly

 

P
RAISE FOR
Men Giving Money, Women Yelling

“Alice Mattison is a charmer. She's one of those uncommon writers who is genuinely tickled by the ids and egos they commit to paper, and her characters bask—rather than squint—in the sunshine of her affectionate scrutiny.
Men Giving Money, Women Yelling
(is there an award for book title of the season?) is Mattison's third collection of short fiction, and it's crammed with characters—teachers, lawyers, social workers—who pop cleanly, if a bit frantically, off the page.”

—New York Times Book Review

“If Mattison's spry language and light touch belie her careful framing of events, they also blithely pave the way for her finely hewn endings, which in almost every story capture the unspoken charm and mystery of a character or a moment.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Mattison treats each of her loony, alternately bored and besotted characters with tenderness.”

—The New Yorker

Also by Alice Mattison

 

The Book Borrower: A Novel

Men Giving Money, Women Yelling: Intersecting Stories

Hilda and Pearl: A Novel

The Flight of Andy Burns: Stories

Field of Stars: A Novel

Great Wits: Stories

Animals: Poems

Copyright

Excerpt from The Book Borrower copyright © 1999 by Alice Mattison.

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2004 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

THE WEDDING OF THE TWO-HEADED WOMAN
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ERENNIAL EDITION PUBLISHED
2005.

ISBN-10: 0-06-093788-2 (pbk.)
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-093788-1 (pbk.)

Epub Edition © AUGUST 2012 ISBN: 9780062232045

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