A Gate at the Stairs - Lorrie Moore

A Gate at the Stairs

By Lorrie Moore

  • Release Date: 2009-09-01
  • Genre: Literary Fiction
Score: 3
3
From 48 Ratings

Description

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

Reviews

  • Do not waste your time on this book

    1
    By hahaking
    I forced myself to finish this book, because I kept hoping that it would get better. It didn't. I truly felt a sense of loss at the hours of my life that are now gone because I wasted them on this book. Characters are not interesting, and the end is just bizarre (I'm sorry, but NO ONE would do what she does at the end.)