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A Gate at the Stairs Audio Book
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A Gate at the Stairs
Author:
Lorrie Moore
Reader: Mia Barron
Just after the events of September 2001, a 20-year-old Midwestern woman makes her way in the world. Even as she falls in love with a secretive man, she becomes close to a family and their adopted daughter. A story that gets at the heart ofracism, the shock of war, and the carelessness perpetrated against others in the name of love. "Stellar novel with great heart."—Publishers Weekly
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Available Audio Book Editions:
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Audio CDs ( 10 ) |
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Publish Date: 09/01/2009
ISBN: 9781602837164
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Synopsis:
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Tassie Keltjin, an unprepossessing daughter of Midwest potato farmers, move to an exciting college town to study literature, and winds up working as a nanny for a glamorous restaurateur who has recently adopted a child. A GATE AT THE STAIRS marks the long-anticipated return of Lorrie Moore, regarded as a master of the short-story form, and one of the finest writers of off-kilter observations, sly wordplay, and rueful half-devastating half-hilarious remarks. All these qualities are on full display in this moving novel of a young woman adrift in the confusion of America and her own sense of self.
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Book Reviews:
| "Moore may be, exactly, the most irresistible contemporary American writer: brainy, humane, unpretentious and warm; seemingly effortlessly lyrical; Lily Tomlin-funny. Most of all, Moore is capable of enlisting not just our sympathies but our sorrows....Great writers usually present us with mysteries, but the mystery Lorrie Moore presents consists of appearing genial, joshing, and earnest at once--unmysterious, in other words, yet still great....On finishing A GATE AT THE STAIRS I turned to the reader nearest to me and made her swear to read it immediately...." |
| New York Times Book Review - Jonathan Lethem (08/30/2009) |
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Author Bio:
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Lorrie Moore, the second of four children, attended St. Lawrence University, where she graduated summa cum laude in 1978. She earned an M.F.A. in 1982 from Cornell University. She is a member of AWP, the Authors Guild, and Phi Beta Kappa. Her awards include winning "Seventeen" magazine's short story contest in 1976, a Granville Hicks Memorial Fellowship in 1983, and an AWP Award, also in 1983. Lorrie Moore was named by "Granta" magazine as a "Top Young American Novelist." She has taught creative writing at various universities. After her short-story collection SELF HELP was published in 1985, Moore began to publish stories in such prestigious publications as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and the Best American Short Stories series. Her writing is known for its wry sense of humor, its painfully accurate observations, and for dealing with tragic issues with a mix of wit and feeling.
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