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050	0	0	_aPS3563.O6225 _bG37 2009
082	1		_aFIC MOO _2
100	1		_aMoore, Lorrie
245	1	2	_aA gate at the stairs : _ba novel _c/ Lorrie Moore.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2009.
300			_a321 p. _c; 23 cm.
520	3		_aAs 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.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aFamilies _v--Fiction
650		4	_aNannies _v--Fiction
650			_aCollege students _v-Fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c245004 _d245004