A gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore, Random House Vintage Contemporaries, 2009 ISBN 9780375708466, 322 pages, Has former owners sticker inside. Paperback.

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 has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir. She takes a part-time job as a nanny, to a mysterious and glamorous couple. 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.

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Lorrie Moore is the author of the story collections Birds of America , Like Life , and Self-Help and the novels Who Will Run the Frog Hospital ? and Anagrams . Her work has won honors from the Lannan Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Irish Times International Prize for Fiction, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and the PEN/Malamud Award. She is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

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Bookseller: Melissa E Anderson (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: M9034
Title: A Gate at the Stairs
Author: Lorrie Moore
Format/Binding: Glued Paperback binding
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0375708464
ISBN 13: 9780375708466
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2010-08-24
Keywords: moore, literature, suspense, middle east
Bookseller catalogs: FICTION / Action & Adventure; FICTION / Historical;

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