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25%OFFLorrie Moore - A Gate at the Stairs: ´Not a single sentence is wasted.’ Elizabeth Day - 9780571249466 - V9780571249466
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A Gate at the Stairs: ´Not a single sentence is wasted.’ Elizabeth Day

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Description for A Gate at the Stairs: ´Not a single sentence is wasted.’ Elizabeth Day Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 268.

'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.

Product Details

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571249466
SKU
V9780571249466
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Ref
99-20

About Lorrie Moore
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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