The Family That Slays Together
Deborah Friedell: Lorrie Moore, 19 November 2009
A Gate at the Stairs
by Lorrie Moore.
Faber, 322 pp., £16.99, October 2009,978 0 571 19530 5 Show More
by Lorrie Moore.
Faber, 322 pp., £16.99, October 2009,
“... she causes the picnic bench she’s sitting on to collapse, and the baby falls and dies. ‘Adrienne went home shortly thereafter, after the hospital and the police reports, and did not leave her attic apartment for seven months’ – at which point she recovers, but it’s suggested that she would be in the attic still if it had been her own child. We ... ”