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  • A Gate at the Stairs: A Novel

    Lorrie Moore

    Audio CD (AudioGO, Sept. 1, 2009)
    In her dazzling new novelher first in more than a decadeMoore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the blind-sidedness of war, and the recklessness thrust on others in the name of love. 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 farmerhis Keltjin potatoes are justifiably famoushas come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir. 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.
  • Birds of America

    Lorrie Moore

    Paperback (Faber Faber Inc, Jan. 1, 1998)
    Beginning with a story about a second-rate film actress involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea who she was as an actress or is as a human being, this is a series of portraits of the young, the hip, the lost, the unsettled and the unhinged of modern-day America.
  • Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Moore, Lorrie published by Vintage

    Lorrie Moore

    (Vintage, July 6, 1994)
    Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include companion materials, may have some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include CDs or access codes. 100% money back guarantee.
  • A Gate at the Stairs

    Lorrie Moore

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press, Feb. 3, 2010)
    As the United States begins gears for war in the Middle East‚ twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin‚ the Midwestern daughter of a gentleman hill farmer‚ comes to a university town as a college student‚ her brain on fire with Ch
  • A Gate at the Stairs

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    Paperback (Faber And Faber, March 15, 2010)
    Spine creased, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.
  • Who Will Run The Frog Hospital?

    Lorrie. Moore

    (KNOPF., July 6, 1994)
    Realizing during a trip to Paris that she no longer loves her husband, Berie Carr remembers her childhood in upstate New York, where she shared a deep friendship with a captivating older girl named Sils. Reprint. NYT.
  • A Gate at the Stairs

    Lorrie Moore

    Paperback (Vintage Contemporaries, March 15, 2009)
    Rare Book
  • Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

    Lorrie Moore

    (Alfred A. Knopf, July 6, 1994)
    Her well-received fourth book and second novel.
  • Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?:A Novel

    Lorrie Moore

    (Blackstone Audio, June 18, 2019)
    In this moving, poignant novel by the bestselling author of Birds of America, we share a grown woman's bittersweet nostalgia for the wildness of her youth.The summer Berie was fifteen, she and her best friend, Sils, had jobs at Storyland in upstate New York where Berie sold tickets to see the beautiful Sils portray Cinderella in a strapless evening gown. They spent their breaks smoking, joking, and gossiping. After work they followed their own reckless rules, teasing the fun out of small-town life, sleeping in the family station wagon, and drinking borrowed liquor from old mayonnaise jars. But no matter how wild, they always managed to escape any real danger--until the adoring Berie sees that Sils really does need her help--and then everything changes.
  • A Gate At The Stairs

    Loorie Moore Lorrie Moore

    Paperback (Faber and Faber, March 15, 2010)
    Great book!
  • Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

    Lorrie Moore

    (Faber & Faber, Sept. 2, 2010)
    This novel follows the lives of two 11-year-olds intent on escaping childhood. As the strength of their friendship is tested repeatedly, they begin to take their first, exhilarating steps towards adulthood.
  • A Gate at the Stairs

    Lorrie Moore

    Hardcover (Bond Street Books, Sept. 8, 2009)
    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 as a nanny for a family that seems mysterious and glamorous to her. Though her liking for children tends to dwindle into boredom, Tassie begins to care for, and protect, their newly adopted little girl as her own. As the year unfolds, she is drawn even deeper into the world of the child and her hovering parents, and her own life back home becomes alien to her. As life reveals itself dramatically and shockingly, Tassie finds herself forever changed — less the person she once was, and more and more the stranger she feels herself to be. Under the novel’s languid surface, Moore’s deft and lyrical writing skillfully illustrates the heart of racism, the shock of war, and the carelessness perpetrated against others in the name of love. It is the novel for our time.