
A Gate at the Stairs
A Novel
Lorrie Moore(Author)
Random House Inc (Publisher)
Published on 24. August 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-375-70846-6 (ISBN)
Description
Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award
Finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction
Chosen as a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star, Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Real Simple
Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the daughter of a gentleman farmer, has come to a university town as a student. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny for a mysterious and glamorous family, she finds herself drawn deeper into their world and forever changed. Told through the eyes of this memorable narrator, A Gate at the Stairs is a piercing novel of race, class, love, and war in America.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 205 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
263 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-375-70846-6 (9780375708466)
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Person
Lorrie Moore