Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore

RRP: £16.99

Publisher: FABER & FABER

Publication Date : 01/10/2009

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

In her first novel for over a decade, Moore turns her attention to the anxiety and disconnection of modern America. 22-year old Tassie leaves the plains of the Midwest to make her way in the world, and finds herself becoming a stranger to herself. 'No one writes quite as vividly, and unpredictably, and brilliantly' Roddy Doyle

Publisher's description:

With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, Tassie Keltjin has come to university - to encounter the complex world of 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.

ISBN: 9780571195305