A Gate at the Stairs

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• A GATE AT THE STAIRS by Lorrie Moore

  Review by Poornima Apte (SEP 10, 2009) Lorrie Moore’s superb novel, A Gate At The Stairs, is told through the voice of 20-year-old Tassie Keltjin. A farmer’s daughter, Tassie attends a liberal arts college and is slowly navigating the daily intricaci ... (read full critics)

  mostlyfiction published on Thu, 30 Sep 2010

• A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore - Review by Waterstone's Books Quarterly Online

  Tassie Keltjin leaves her rural home to study in liberal, artsy Troy. She takes a job as a part-time nanny for a white couple and their adopted ‘biracial’ daughter, then she falls in love and becomes increasingly distant from her own family. Fans of ... (read full critics)

  wbqonline published on Wed, 29 Sep 2010

3 Reviews

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  la provincia americana, una penna eccezionale, una storia piena di assenze, un anti-bildungsroman

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  "... in literature - perhaps as in life - one had to speak not of what the author intended but of what the story intended for itself. The creator was inconvenient - God was dead. But the creation intself had a personality and hopes and its own desires and plans and little winks and dance steps and c ... (continue)

  "... in literature - perhaps as in life - one had to speak not of what the author intended but of what the story intended for itself. The creator was inconvenient - God was dead. But the creation intself had a personality and hopes and its own desires and plans and little winks and dance steps and collaged intent. In this way Jacques Derrida overlapped with Walt Disney. The story itself had feet and a mouth, could walk and talk and speak of its own yearnings!"

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  rayuela said on Feb 28, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  bits and pieces of good story but...

  Laurie Moore is famous for short stories and what is good in this book could be a short story. There is the story about the perfect middle age couple, adopting a mixed race child, who have one heck of a secret, there's the plain jane babysitter who is dealing with her own double background and seems ... (continue)

  Laurie Moore is famous for short stories and what is good in this book could be a short story. There is the story about the perfect middle age couple, adopting a mixed race child, who have one heck of a secret, there's the plain jane babysitter who is dealing with her own double background and seems to have a penchant for trouble, and then there is political commentary on everything in this fictional college town. But the truth is that as a story, it is all over the place and no one is the least bit interesting except maybe the adopted child. Disappointing

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  Gail Paris said on Jan 25, 2010 about the eBook edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Others 336 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0375409289
• ISBN-13: 9780375409288
• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Pub date: Sep 08, 2009
• Also available as: eBook

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