A Gate at the Stairs (Vintage Contemporaries) New or Used:Used

A Gate at the Stairs (Vintage Contemporaries) New or Used:UsedNATIONAL BESTSELLER From one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation (The New York Times) comes a piercing novel of race, class, love, and war in America. Twenty year old Tassie Keltjin, the daughter of a gentleman farmer, has come to a university town as a student. When she takes a job as a part time nanny for a mysterious and glamorous family, she finds herself drawn deeper into their world and forever changed. An indelible portrait

There's new life astir

hope and comfort can be found in the strangest of places

As an irresponsible young mother

a richly ironic picture emerges of the illusions of love

but the heart of a woman who has already lost far more than she can bear

"One of the best novels EVER

racial injustice to anti-Semitism

Vivian Emory

hot summer of his seventh year

and that their promise to each other will be kept

Provocative and lyrical

and Caroline Cooper is feeling the heat - in more ways than one