A Gate at the Stairs
Resumen del libro
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 she visits; her disillusioned brother ever more fixed on joining the military - Tassie finds herself becoming a stranger to herself.
As the year unfolds, love leads her to new and formative experiences - but it is then that the past and the future burst forth in dramatic and shocking ways. Refracted through the eyes of this memorable narrator, "A Gate at the Stairs" is a lyrical, beguiling and wise novel of our times.
Biografía del autor
Nacida en Glens Falls (Nueva York) en 1957, es autora de tres libros de relatos, Autoayuda (1985), Como la vida misma (1990) y Pájaros de América (1998), y de dos novelas, Anagramas (1986) y Elhospital de ranas (1994). Pájaros de América fue elegido Libro del Año de 1998 por The New York Times, seleccionado entre los mejores del año por Los Angeles Times y Publishers Weekly, finalista del National Book Critics Circle Award, y permaneció varias semanas en la lista de libros más vendidos; autores de la talla de Julian Barnes lo eligieron como uno de los mejores libros del año, y la revista Entertainment Weekly lo ha seleccionado como uno de los 50 mejores libros de los últimos 25 años. Lorrie Moore ha sido galardonada con el Irish Times International Prize for Literature, el O. Henry Award, el PEN/Malamud Award y el Rea Award for the Short Story, y la Lannan Foundation le ha concedido una beca. Es miembro de la American Academy of Arts and Letters. Actualmente es profesora en la Universidad de Wisconsin, Madison.
