A Gate at the Stairs: 'Not a single sentence is wasted.’ Elizabeth Day

Awards:   Short-listed for Orange Prize for Fiction 2010 Shortlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction 2010.
Author:   Lorrie Moore
Publisher:   Faber & Faber
Edition:   Main
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9780571249466


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   22 April 2010
Format:   Paperback
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A Gate at the Stairs: 'Not a single sentence is wasted.’ Elizabeth Day


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  • Short-listed for Orange Prize for Fiction 2010
  • Shortlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction 2010.

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With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university - escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world of culture and politics. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny to a couple who seem at once mysterious and glamorous, Tassie is drawn into the life of their newly-adopted child and increasingly complicated household. As her past becomes increasingly alien to her - her parents seem older when she visits; her disillusioned brother ever more fixed on joining the military - Tassie finds herself becoming a stranger to herself. As the year unfolds, love leads her to new and formative experiences - but it is then that the past and the future burst forth in dramatic and shocking ways. Refracted through the eyes of this memorable narrator, A Gate at the Stairs is a lyrical, beguiling and wise novel of our times.

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Author:   Lorrie Moore
Publisher:   Faber & Faber
Imprint:   Faber & Faber
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.00cm
Weight:   0.260kg
ISBN:  

9780571249466


ISBN 10:   0571249469
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   22 April 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Lorrie Moore is the award-winning author of the story collections Self-Help, Like Life, and Birds of America, and the novels Anagrams and Who will Run the Frog Hospital? She currently teaches English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

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