Alligator by Lisa Moore
Lisa Moore's Alligator moves with the swiftness of a gator in attack mode through the lives of a group of brilliantly rendered characters in a city whose spiritual location is somewhere in the heart of Flannery O'Connor country. Madeleine, the driven, ageing filmmaker whose mission is to complete a Bergmanesque magnum opus before she dies Frank, a young man of innocence and determination whose life is a strange anthology of unpredictable dangers Valentin, the sociopathic Russian refugee whose predatory tendencies threaten everyone he encounters Colleen, at seventeen, a hard-edged female Holden Caulfield, drawn inexorably to the places where alligators thrive.
[She] is from Newfoundland - a rare and fortunate inheritance for any novelistBut she can also flat-out write, and would be a major find even if she came from Kansas * Richard Ford, author of Independence Day *
Compelling and rewarding . . . surprisingly emotional, rich with human feeling and insight. Moore has a keen ear for both dialogue and a well-turned phrase, and the writing is suffused with a reckless joy * Robert J. Wiersema, Quill & Quire *
'An astonishing writer. She brings to her pages what we are always seeking in fiction and only find in the best of it: a magnetizing gift for revealing how the earth feels, looks, tastes, smells * Richard Ford, author of Independence Day *
Compelling and rewarding . . . surprisingly emotional, rich with human feeling and insight. Moore has a keen ear for both dialogue and a well-turned phrase, and the writing is suffused with a reckless joy * Robert J. Wiersema, Quill & Quire *
'An astonishing writer. She brings to her pages what we are always seeking in fiction and only find in the best of it: a magnetizing gift for revealing how the earth feels, looks, tastes, smells * Richard Ford, author of Independence Day *
Lisa Moore's book of short stories, Open, was also shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (in 2002) and became a bestseller in Canada. She writes a biweekly column in the Canadian Globe and Mail and lives in St. John's, Newfoundland with her husband and two children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844081301 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844081303 |
| Title | Alligator |
| Author | Lisa Moore |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2007-07-05 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book (Canada and Caribbean region) 2006 (UK), Long-listed for Orange Prize 2007 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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