When We Argued All Night: A Novel

by Alice Mattison

Overview

From bestselling and award-winning author Alice Mattison comes a breathtaking new novel following two best friends from Brooklyn, exploring the way in which the world and their lives change over the course of the 20th century. The deft literary touch that readers have grown to love in novels such as Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn and The Book Borrower, as well as story collections such as In Case We’re Separated, combine in a marvelous narrative of friendship and family, with rich, complicated characters who grow and change together over the course of seventy-five years. Fans of generational stories such as East of Eden, or novels of friendship such as The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, will be swept away by the intimate beauty of Mattison’s latest triumph, When We Argued All Night.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062120380
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	06/12/2012
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	892 KB

About the Author

Alice Mattison is the award-winning author of four story collections and five novels, including Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn. She teaches fiction in the graduate writing program at Bennington College in Vermont and lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Editorial Reviews

…Mattison always operates in both close-up and wide angle, and here the effect is often dazzling. Her prose is so crisp that along with all the pleasures of fiction she manages to deliver the particular intellectual satisfactions of an essay or a documentary…Both [Harold and Artie] are types it's all too easy to disparage: one could easily be dismissed as a shouter, always an inch away from a violent outburst, the other as a manipulative philanderer. Yet Mattison makes you care about them right to the end, and care so deeply that you take their every disappointment personally.
—Maria Russo

The New York Times Book Review

WHEN WE ARGUED ALL NIGHT provides a surprisingly intimate look at a lifelong friendship.” — Shelf Awareness

“Mattison always operates in both close-up and wide angle, and here the effect is often dazzling. Her prose is so crisp that along with all the pleasures of fiction she manages to deliver the particular intellectual satisfactions of an essay or a documentary.” — New York Times Book Review

From the Publisher

Mattison always operates in both close-up and wide angle, and here the effect is often dazzling. Her prose is so crisp that along with all the pleasures of fiction she manages to deliver the particular intellectual satisfactions of an essay or a documentary.

New York Times Book Review

WHEN WE ARGUED ALL NIGHT provides a surprisingly intimate look at a lifelong friendship.

Shelf Awareness