Volume 56, Number 19 · December 3, 2009
Voices in the Heartland
By Brad Leithauser
A Gate at the Stairs
by Lorrie Moore
Knopf, 322 pp., $25.95
Lorrie Moore's novels are remarkable for the number of linguistic detours they embark on. Off in the distance, a plot is likely hatching. But its unfolding will patiently have to wait until the characters—nearly all of whom have a penchant for wordplay—have explored the far-flung implications of the language that entertains and envelops them.
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