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A Gate at the Stairs (Vintage…
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A Gate at the Stairs (Vintage Contemporaries) (2009 original; edició 2010)

de Lorrie Moore (Autor)

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"...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.… (més)
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Títol:A Gate at the Stairs (Vintage Contemporaries)
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Informació:Vintage (2010), Edition: Reprint, 336 pages
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Al peu de l'escala de Lorrie Moore (2009)

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The excerpt in the New Yorker hooked me. Great characters. ( )
  monicaberger | Jan 22, 2024 |
There's certainly a lot of pain and injustice in this book, but I'm glad to have read it. Moore has a unique writing voice and a kind of "old soul" wisdom ensconced in her story about the world of young women in the modern age. If you're looking for some sort of feel good story or thriller then keep moving. But if you can stomach the gut punches, this is a novel well worth the discomfort. ( )
  dele2451 | Jun 8, 2023 |
Mientras Estados Unidos se prepara para la Guerra de Iraq, Tassie, una chica de campo que estudia en una ciudad del Medio Oeste, empieza a trabajar como canguro para un matrimonio de blancos que ha adoptado a una niña de origen afroamericano. Poco a poco, Tassie se va sintiendo más unida a ella, y la protege y quiere como si fuera su propia hija. Pero la vida revela sus inevitables secretos: los padres adoptivos ocultan algo, y su descubrimiento romperá para siempre los lazos entre Tassie y la pequeña.
  Natt90 | Feb 9, 2023 |
Would like to read more by this writer. Lovely writing and very funny, although the story took some dark turns halfway through. Tassie the protagonist is a wonderful and likable college student. ( )
  steve02476 | Jan 3, 2023 |
I like the ending. I kept thinking she isn't going to do the right thing, but she does. Just like that.

A Gate at the Stairs played with language in ways that were refreshing. The characters were interesting. ( )
  bobunwired | Nov 19, 2022 |
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As the drifts of perfectly turned moments mount up about the reader's shoulders, along with a corresponding paucity of dramatic incident, forward motion becomes increasingly difficult. Moore is a great writer, but you wish that every once in a while, she would settle for just being good.
afegit per Shortride | editaTime, Lev Grossman (Oct 5, 2009)
 
Moore has performed a brilliant feat. She has retained the shining, fluid, and, yes, funny surface of her earlier work. But she has also given us a narrator who attempts to peer through the shimmering veil of language to the truth behind.
afegit per Shortride | editaSlate, Claire Dederer (Sep 7, 2009)
 
What Moore crafts is so like life that to condemn Tassie for the ways in which she fails and falls short as a person would demand that we examine such behavior in ourselves. Thank goodness this book is funny, otherwise, it would be nearly unbearable.
afegit per Shortride | editaAssociated Press, Patrick Condon (Sep 3, 2009)
 
Aggressively clever, meticulously crafted -- and exhausting.
afegit per jjlong | editaSalon, Stephanie Zacharek (Sep 1, 2009)
 
Great writers usually present us with mysteries, but the mystery Lorrie Moore presents consists of appearing genial, joshing and earnest at once — unmysterious, in other words, yet still great. She’s a discomfiting, sometimes even rageful writer, lurking in the disguise of an endearing one.
 

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"...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.

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