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Alligator: A Novel

Alligator: A Novel

by Lisa Lynne Moore (Author), Lisa Lynne Moore (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Virago
Published: 05 Jul 2007
ISBN 10: 1844081303
ISBN 13: 9781844081301
Book Overview: * Review coverage * Reading copies available
 Prizes: Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book - Caribbean and Canada 2006. Long-listed for Orange Prize 2007.

Media Reviews
[She] is from Newfoundland - a rare and fortunate inheritance for any novelist. But 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 *
Author Bio
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.