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A Gate at the Stairs

By - Moore, Lorrie
Floor - Floor 3
Published - Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2009
ISBN 10 - 0375708464
ISBN 13 - 9780375708466
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Nannies
Shelf No - 5
Call Number - 813.54 MOO
Physical Description - 321 pages ; 22 cm
Book Information
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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