Gate At The Stairs

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.

Gate at the stairs.

A gate at the stairs. A gate at the stairs by lorrie moore lorrie moore s literary talent has always seemed exquisitely adapted to brevity. A gate at the stairs paperback. However not all stair gates are suitable for the top of the stairs.

Tassie is from a small town in rural wisconsin and her world is expanded exponentially over the course of the novel first by her experience in the college town of troy then by her employment as the nanny for a young adopted mixed race girl and finally by her brother s experience in the military. Moore has won the irish times international prize for fiction and the rea award for the short story. This novel is insightful comic thought provoking and tragic. Now she has finally proved herself over the long haul says geoff dyer.

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. I d liken lorrie moore to a cross between zoë heller and lionel shriver. A gate at the stairs is a novel by american fiction writer lorrie moore.

Lorrie moore s a gate at the stairs follows a year in the life of tassie a 20 year old college student. A gate at the stairs is the new york times one of the best books of the year winners as well as various other literary awards and nominations. Stair gates can be placed at the top and bottom of stairs as well as in doorways. With america quietly gearing up for war in the middle east twenty year old tassie keltjin a half jewish farmer s.

Beautifully rendered with some gorgeous turn of phrase. It was published by random house in 2009. Only screw fit gates are.