A Gate at the Stairs [DECKLE EDGE] (Hardcover)

Amazon.com Review

Amazon Best of the Month, September 2009: Lorrie Moore’s people are jokesters, wisenheimers. They hold the world, and the language used to describe it, a little off to the side, where they can turn it around and, if not figure it out, at least find something funny to say about it, which, often, is not quite enough. It’s been 11 years since her last book, 15 since her last novel, but A Gate at the Stairs is vintage Moore: brittly witty and lurkingly dark, the por (more…)

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