The Resource A gate at the stairs : a novel, Lorrie Moore
A gate at the stairs : a novel, Lorrie Moore
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- Summary
- " ... 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. Between semesters, she takes a job as a part-time nanny. The family she works for seems both mysterious and glamorous to her, and although Tassie had once found children boring, she comes to care for, and to protect, their newly adopted little girl as her own. 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 ..."--Dust cover flap
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 321 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375409288
- Label
- A gate at the stairs : a novel
- Title
- A gate at the stairs
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Lorrie Moore
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- " ... 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. Between semesters, she takes a job as a part-time nanny. The family she works for seems both mysterious and glamorous to her, and although Tassie had once found children boring, she comes to care for, and to protect, their newly adopted little girl as her own. 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 ..."--Dust cover flap
- Award
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- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2009.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2009
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 321320
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Moore, Lorrie
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Families
- Nannies
- College students
- College students
- Families
- Nannies
- Label
- A gate at the stairs : a novel, Lorrie Moore
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 747379
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 321 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375409288
- Lccn
- 2009003091
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780375409288
- (OCoLC)297147181
- Label
- A gate at the stairs : a novel, Lorrie Moore
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 747379
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 321 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375409288
- Lccn
- 2009003091
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780375409288
- (OCoLC)297147181
Subject
- Families -- Fiction
- Families
- trueFamily relationships
- Fiction
- Nannies
- trueNannies
- Nannies -- Fiction
- trueRacism
- trueRich families
- trueYoung women
- trueAdoption
- Bildungsromans
- College students
- trueCollege students
- College students -- Fiction
Genre
Included in
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2009
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2009
Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
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