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false <![CDATA[A Gate at the Stairs]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255637990m/6076387.jpg 6076387 6 In her best-selling story collection, Birds of America (“[it] will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability” —James McManus, front page of The New York Times Book Review), Lorrie Moore wrote about the disconnect between men and women, about the precariousness of women on the edge, and about loneliness and loss. Now, in her dazzling new novel—her first in more than a decade—Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the blind-sidedness of war, and the recklessness thrust on others in the name of love. As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the Midwestern daughter of a gentleman hill farmer—his “Keltjin potatoes” are justifiably famous—has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir. Between semesters, she takes a job as a part-time nanny. The family she works for seems both mysterious and glamorous to her, and although Tassie had once found children boring, she comes to care for, and to protect, their newly adopted little girl as her own. As the year unfolds and she is drawn deeper into each of these lives, her own life back home becomes ever more alien to her: her parents are frailer; her brother, aimless and lost in high school, contemplates joining the military. Tassie finds herself becoming more and more the stranger she felt herself to be, and as life and love unravel dramatically, even shockingly, she is forever changed. This long-awaited new novel by one of the most heralded writers of the past two decades is lyrical, funny, moving, and devastating; Lorrie Moore’s most ambitious book to date—textured, beguiling, and wise. 6252965 1 9 2009 A Gate at the Stairs total:834|5:77|4:170|3:152|2:75|1:19| 834 2969 2780 372 4 3 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 20:55:53 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 18:08:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 17 11:04:43 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 11:05:37 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 0 1 false false Mon Nov 16 10:36:30 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 10:42:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 09:07:36 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 09:30:20 -0800 2009 A Gate at the Stairs she successfully inhabits the mind of her narrator -- Tassie Keltjin, a young college student. During a semester break, Tass...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 09 20:34:19 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 20:46:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 07 20:56:02 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 21:08:36 -0800 2009
The core story, in which a white family adopts a biracial baby, has p...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 09:42:32 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 15:10:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 14:58:54 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 15:11:04 -0700 2009 1 A Gate at the Stairs, Moore presents a fleshed out narrative that seems a step more mature than her story collections or earlier Anagrams. A bit of a bildungsroman, the novel follows Tassie Keltjin from a small town midwestern farm to a universi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 05:53:19 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 05:53:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 05:08:32 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 08:02:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Sep 28 05:26:11 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 05:35:07 -0700 2009
I dont think that I had ever heard her name before a few months ago when I read a short story by her in The New Yorker and immediately fell in love with it. That short story turned out to be an excerpt from her new novel, A GATE AT THE STAIRS...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 19:09:50 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 19:13:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Sep 14 09:46:10 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 09:46:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 3 false false Sun Sep 13 07:44:30 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 08:25:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false true Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 12:56:31 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 13:06:13 -0700 2009 Frog Hospital. And I loved... did Anagrams count as a novel? It's just that the way she writes, this thing I ...more...]]> 3 2 false true Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 18:49:56 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 17:30:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 4 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 17:00:18 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 22:03:46 -0700 2009
Which made its sudden familiarity something between comforting and disc...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 14:27:11 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 16:10:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 29 15:57:36 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 11:30:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 08:54:45 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 17:16:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6076387