A Gate at the Stairs

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Coming-of-age in a Post 9/11 World

A Gate At The Stairs explores the complexities of growing up as Tassie adapts to a new environment while navigating through themes of race, class, and parenthood. Readers who enjoy character-driven stories and layered metaphors will find Lorrie Moore's writing style particularly engaging.

  • Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2010)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2010)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2009)
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A Gate at the Stairs

Regular price RM44.23 MYR
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ISBN: 9780307739421
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: RM51.13 MYR
Authors: Lorrie Moore
Publisher: Random House Inc.
Date of Publication: 2009-09-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Race, Feminism, Asian Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.17
(rated by 18154 readers)

Description

A novel 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 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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Coming-of-age in a Post 9/11 World

A Gate At The Stairs explores the complexities of growing up as Tassie adapts to a new environment while navigating through themes of race, class, and parenthood. Readers who enjoy character-driven stories and layered metaphors will find Lorrie Moore's writing style particularly engaging.

  • Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2010)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2010)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2009)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.