A Gate at the Stairs |
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| Authors: | Moore, Lorrie |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | FIC044000, FIC019000, FIC043000 |
| ISBN: | 9780307273215, Related ISBNs: 0307273210, 0375409289, 0375708464, 0385668244, 0385668260 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 336, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award
Finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction
Chosen as a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star, Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Real Simple
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.
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