{"product_id":"a-gate-at-the-stairs-paperback","title":"A Gate at the Stairs - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLorrie Moore\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From \"one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) comes a piercing novel of race, class, love, and war in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty-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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An indelible portrait of a young woman coming of age in the Midwest in the year after 9\/11.... Moore has written her most powerful book yet.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLORRIE MOORE, after many years as a professor of creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is now Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Moore has received honors for her work, among them the Irish Times International Prize for Literature and a Lannan Foundation fellowship, as well as the PEN\/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for her achievement in the short story. Her novel \u003ci\u003eA Gate at the Stairs \u003c\/i\u003ewas shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction and for the PEN\/Faulkner Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 7.92 x 5.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 24, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755632525600,"sku":"9780375708466","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f3437d8469dc5279fcd9cacbd01894a4.webp?v=1780064191","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-gate-at-the-stairs-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}