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'You can sit back and have the time of your life reading A Gate at the Stairs.' Observer'One of the funniest writers alive' Dave Eggers'Hilarious and distressing, entertaining and wise' Roddy Doyle'Moore's a writer you don't quit.' Guardian***SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION***A startlingly funny, inventive novel from one of America's most brilliant writers. 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.Read More

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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.

  • TheBookPeople

    A wise story for our times, A Gate At The Stairs is the first substantial novel from the immensely talented American writer Lorrie Moore. At times almost lyrical in her prose, Moore decribes the life of 20 year-old Tassie Keltjin, a farmer's daugther who has decamped to University. Full of gentle snippets and gorgeous sentences that will stick in the memory, the writing is vivid and meanders wonderfully throughout; helping to draw real purpose to Tassie's growth as a young adult in a novel that is blessed with a warming generosity of spirit. As the lead character is forced to deal with an identity crisis having left her old life behind, the worry lingers that she may even become a stranger to herself.

  • BookDepository

    A Gate at the Stairs : Paperback : Faber & Faber : 9780571249466 : : 22 Apr 2010 : Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university. 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.

  • Waterstones

    Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university. 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 o

  • 0571249469
  • 9780571249466
  • Lorrie Moore
  • 22 April 2010
  • Faber and Faber
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 336
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