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''You can sit back and have the time of your life reading A Gate at the Stairs.'' Observer
One of the funniest writers alive' Dave Eggers
Hilarious and distressing, entertaining and wise'' Roddy Doyle
''Moore's a writer you don't quit.' Guardian

***SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION***

A startlingly funny, inventive novel from one of America''s most brilliant writers.

With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a ''half-Jewish'' farmer''s daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university - escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world of culture and politics.

When she takes a job as a part-time nanny to a couple who seem at once mysterious and glamorous, Tassie is drawn into the life of their newly-adopted child and increasingly complicated household. As her past becomes increasingly alien to her - her parents seem older when

A Gate at the Stairs

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 22 April 2010
      ISBN-13 9780571249466
      978-0571249466
      ISBN-10 0571249469
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      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''You can sit back and have the time of your life reading A Gate at the Stairs.'' Observer
      One of the funniest writers alive' Dave Eggers
      Hilarious and distressing, entertaining and wise'' Roddy Doyle
      ''Moore's a writer you don't quit.' Guardian

      ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION***

      A startlingly funny, inventive novel from one of America''s most brilliant writers.

      With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a ''half-Jewish'' farmer''s daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university - escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world of culture and politics.

      When she takes a job as a part-time nanny to a couple who seem at once mysterious and glamorous, Tassie is drawn into the life of their newly-adopted child and increasingly complicated household. As her past becomes increasingly alien to her - her parents seem older when

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