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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Now in B Format.
From Newfoundland comes a fabulous new voice in a novel where humanity is a bizarre combination of the reptilian and the saintly. Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller, the Canadian Booker Prize and regional winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
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 unpredicatable 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.
Praise for Alligator
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[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
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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
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'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
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