Moore, Lorrie:A GATE AT THE STAIRS: A NOVEL
- exemplaire signée 2009, ISBN: 9780375409288
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MP3 Audio CD. Among the Rice Fields (in Short Poetry Collection 125 ) She was fair as a Passion-flower, (But little of love he knew.) Her lucent eyes were like amber wine, And her eyelids stained with blue. He called them the Gates of Fair Desire, And the Lakes where Beauty lay, But I looked into them once, and saw The eyes of Beasts of Prey. He praised her teeth, that were small and white As lilies upon his lawn, While I remembered a tiger's fangs That met in a speckled fawn. She had her way; a lover the more, And I had a friend the less. For long there was nothing to do but wait And suffer his happiness. But now I shall choose the sharpest Kriss And nestle it in her breast, For dead, he is drifting down to sea, And his own hand wrought his rest., 0, MP3 Audio CD. Short Poetry Collection 125 Among The Rice Fields by Laurence Hope She was fair as a Passion-flower, (But little of love he knew.) Her lucent eyes were like amber wine, And her eyelids stained with blue. He called them the Gates of Fair Desire, And the Lakes where Beauty lay, But I looked into them once, and saw The eyes of Beasts of Prey. He praised her teeth, that were small and white As lilies upon his lawn, While I remembered a tiger's fangs That met in a speckled fawn. She had her way; a lover the more, And I had a friend the less. For long there was nothing to do but wait And suffer his happiness. But now I shall choose the sharpest Kriss And nestle it in her breast, For dead, he is drifting down to sea, And his own hand wrought his rest., 0, MP3 Audio CD. A Nocturnal Reverie (in Short Poetry Collection 043 ) In such a night, when every louder wind Is to its distant cavern safe confined, And only gentle Zephyr fans his wings, And lonely Philomel, still waking, sings; Or from some tree, famed for the owl's delight, She hollowing clear, directs the wanderer right; In such a night, when passing clouds give place, Or thinly veil the heaven's mysterious face; When in some river, overhung with green, The waving moon and trembling leaves are seen; When freshened grass now bears itself upright, And makes cool banks to pleasing rest invite, Whence springs the woodbine and the bramble-rose, And where the sleepy cowslip sheltered grows; Whilst now a paler hue the foxglove takes, Yet chequers still with red the dusky brakes; When scattered glow-worms, but in twilight fine, Show trivial beauties watch their hour to shine, Whilst Salisbury stands the test of every light In perfect charms and perfect virtue bright; When odours which declined repelling day Through temperate air uninterrupted stray; When darkened groves their softest shadows wear, And falling waters we distinctly hear; When through the gloom more venerable shows Some ancient fabric, awful in repose, While sunburnt hills their swarthy looks conceal And swelling haycocks thicken up the vale; When the loosed horse now, as his pasture leads, Comes slowly grazing through th' adjoining meads, Whose stealing pace, and lengthened shade we fear, Till torn up forage in his teeth we hear; When nibbling sheep at large pursue their food, And unmolested kine re-chew the cud; When curlews cry beneath the village-walls, And to her straggling brood the partridge calls; Their shortlived jubilee the creatures keep, 0, New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 322 pages. The author's third novel. One of the most important literary events of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. "Autographed Copy" metallic-silver round sticker pasted in front. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Lorrie Moore's "A Gate At The Stairs". Marks her triumphant return to the novel form, after a hiatus of almost fifteen years. Her last book, "Birds of America", a short story collection, was published eleven years ago, in 1998. Lorrie Moore's much-awaited novel took more than a decade to conceive and write. "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. Vintage Moore: Brittle, witty, and dark, the portrait of a Midwest college town through the eyes of Tassie Keltjin, a student from the country whose mind has been lit up by learning, but who spends nearly all this story out of class, as a nanny for a couple who have adopted a toddler. Tassie's a bit of a toddler herself (and an ideal narrator because of it) , testing the world as if through her teeth, and she finds the world stranger and more deeply wounded the more she learns of it. Sad, hilarious, and thrillingly necessary" (Tom Nissley) . The fictitious Midwest college is based upon and inspired by the legendary University of Wisconsin at Madison, where Lorrie Moore is a Professor of English. An absolute "must-have" title for Lorrie Moore collectors. This Autographed Copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the publisher's tipped-in page by Lorrie Moore. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0375409289., Alfred A. Knopf, 2009, 5<
