A Gate At The Stairs Lorrie Moore by Lorrie Moore 9781982636913, 1982636912 instant download after payment.

In her best-selling story collection, Birds of America ("[it] will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability"  - James McManus, front page of The New York Times Book Review), Lorrie Moore wrote about the disconnect between men and women, about the precariousness of women on the edge, and about loneliness and loss.

Now, in her dazzling new novel - her first in more than a decade - Lorrie Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the blind-sidedness of war, and the recklessness thrust on others in the name of love.

"Ms Moore gives us stark, melancholy glimpses into her characters' hearts, mapping their fears and disappointments, their hidden yearnings and their more evanescent efforts to hold on to their dreams in the face of unfurling misfortune."  -  The New York Times

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. Told through the eyes of this memorable narrator, A Gate At The Stairs is a piercing novel of race, class, love, and war in America.

"What's so endearing is Moore's ability to tempt us with humour into the surreal boundaries of human experience, those strange decisions that make no sense out of context, the things we can't believe anyone would do."  -   The Washington Post