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Moore represents the voices of smart, sad, and slightly neurotic women on a national bookshelf currently cluttered with tissue-thin chick lit, Roth anti-heroes, and angsty male Brooklyn writers. We anticipate her success because we want her to succeed… If Moore’s misunderstood female characters can succeed in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, then there is hope for us yet.
Whatever the response to A Gate at the Stairs, I’ll still have a place for her. A writing teacher of mine recently dismissed one of my stories by saying “it’s Lorrie Moore.” Little did that teacher know that, in my mind, there is no finer compliment.
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ha. check, check AND check.
Also, this book is about an “apathetic Midwestern college student who takes a job as a nanny.”
ALSO, COME ON ASHLEY I NEED THAT BOOK.
