A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From "one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation" (The New York Times) comes a piercing novel of race, class, love, and war in America.Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the daughter of a gentleman farmer, has come to a university town as a student. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny for a mysterious and glamorous family, she finds herself drawn deeper into their world and forever changed.
"An indelible portrait of a young woman coming of age in the Midwest in the year after 9/11.... Moore has written her most powerful book yet." --The New York Times
Lorrie Moore is Vanderbilt University's Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English. For her achievements in the short story, she has received the Irish Times International Prize for Fiction, a Lannan Foundation grant, the PEN/Malamud Award, and the Rea Award. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' board of directors. She currently resides in Nashville.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780375708466 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375708464 |
| Title | A Gate at the Stairs |
| Author | Lorrie Moore |
| Series | Vintage Contemporaries |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2010-08-24 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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