A Gate at the Stairs [electronic resource]
Moore, Lorrie2009
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In her dazzling new novel -- her first in more than a decade -- Moore turns her eye 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. 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: 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.
Main title:
A Gate at the Stairs [electronic resource] / Lorrie Moore
Author:
Moore, Lorrie, AuthorBarron, Mia, Narrator
Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Blackstone Publishing, 2009
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Lorrie Moore is the author of the
story collections Birds of America, Like Life, and Self-Help and the novels Who
Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Anagrams.
Her work has won honors from the Lannan Foundation and the American Academy of
Arts and Letters, as well as the Irish Times International Prize for Fiction,
the Rea Award for the Short Story, and the PEN/Malamud Award. She is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
Awards:
PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist (PEN/Faulkner Foundation)10 Best Books of 2009 (The New York Times)
ISBN:
9780792768395
Language:
English
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BRN:
2787085
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