The Resource A gate at the stairs, Lorrie Moore
A gate at the stairs, Lorrie Moore
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Resource Information
The item A gate at the stairs, Lorrie Moore represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Noble County Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large print ed.
- Extent
- 521 pages (large print)
- Isbn
- 9781410421890
- Label
- A gate at the stairs
- Title
- A gate at the stairs
- Statement of responsibility
- Lorrie Moore
- Subject
-
- trueCollege students
- College students -- Fiction
- trueComing-of-age stories
- Families -- Fiction
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFirst person narratives
- Large type books
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueNannies
- Nannies -- Fiction
- trueRacism
- trueYoung women
- trueRich families
- trueAdoption
- trueAdult books for young adults
- Bildungsromans
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Summary
- In the Midwest just after the September 11 attacks, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin comes of age amid such challenges as racism, the War on Terror, and cruelty in the name of love, as she leaves her family's farm to attend college and takes a part-time job as a nanny
- Award
-
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2009.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2009
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 321320
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Moore, Lorrie
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3563.O6225
- LC item number
- G37 2010
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Thorndike Press large print core
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Families
- Nannies
- College students
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- A gate at the stairs, Lorrie Moore
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 15529747
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- Large print ed.
- Extent
- 521 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410421890
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009034718
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn432444343
- (OCoLC)432444343
- Label
- A gate at the stairs, Lorrie Moore
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 15529747
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- Large print ed.
- Extent
- 521 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410421890
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009034718
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn432444343
- (OCoLC)432444343
Subject
- trueCollege students
- College students -- Fiction
- trueComing-of-age stories
- Families -- Fiction
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFirst person narratives
- Large type books
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueNannies
- Nannies -- Fiction
- trueRacism
- trueYoung women
- trueRich families
- trueAdoption
- trueAdult books for young adults
- Bildungsromans
Genre
- trueFirst person narratives
- Large type books
- trueLiterary fiction
- Bildungsromans
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueComing-of-age stories
- Fiction
Member of
Included in
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2009
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2009
Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
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