| Titre : |
A gate at the stairs |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Lorrie MOORE, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
Vintage |
| Année de publication : |
2009 |
| Importance : |
321 p. |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-375-70846-6 |
| Langues : |
Américain (ame) |
| Index. décimale : |
813 Fiction |
| Résumé : |
Tassie Keltjin, 20, a smalltown girl weathering a clumsy college year in the Athens of the Midwest, is taken on as prospective nanny by brittle Sarah Brink, the proprietor of a pricey restaurant who is desperate to adopt a baby despite her dodgy past. Subsequent adventures in prospective motherhood involve a pregnant girl with scarcely a tooth in her head and a white birth mother abandoned by her African-American boyfriend—both encounters expose class and racial prejudice to an increasingly less naïve Tassie. In a parallel tale, Tassie lands a lover, enigmatic Reynaldo, who tries to keep certain parts of his life a secret from Tassie. |
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