A Gate at the Stairs
Lyrical, devastatingly funny, wise, and beguiling, A Gate at the Stairs is Lorrie Moore’s most ambitious book to date.
The long-awaited new novel from one of the most heralded writers of the past thirty years, A Gate at the Stairs is a book of stunning power.
Set just after the events of September 2001, it is a story about Tassie Keltjin, a twenty-year-old making her way in a new world and coming of age. Tassie is a “smile-less” girl from the plains of the mid-west. She has come to a university town, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, and Simone de Beauvoir. In between semesters, she takes a part-time job…
LORRIE MOORE is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, as well as the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for her achievement in the short story. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
Lorrie Moore
Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore; Introduction by Lauren Groff
See What Can Be Done
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Real Estate
Lorrie Moore
Bark
Lorrie Moore
Vissi d'Arte
Lorrie Moore
A Gate at the Stairs
Lorrie Moore
Birds of America
Lorrie Moore
Anagrams
Lorrie Moore
Self-Help
Lorrie Moore
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
Lorrie Moore