A Gate at the Stairs

NATIONAL BESTSELLER – From “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation” (The New York Times) comes a piercing novel of race, class, love, and war in America.

Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the daughter of a gentleman farmer, has come to a university town as a student. 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.

“An indelible portrait of a young woman coming of age in the Midwest in the year after 9/11…. Moore has written her most powerful book yet.” —The New York Times

Author: Lorrie Moore
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 08/24/2010
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.92h x 5.28w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780375708466
Language: English