Alligator : a novel. [kit]
Alligator : a novel. [kit]
By
:
Moore, Lisa, 1964-
Publication Date
:
2005
Physical Description
:
Books : + 1 discussion question booklet + 1 biographical booklet.
Subject Term
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Teenage girls -- Fiction
Geographic Term
:
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.
Series
:
BOOKCLUB KIT
BOOKCLUB KIT.
Summary
:
Lisa Moore's Alligator gives dramatic birth to a new kind of fiction: North Atlantic Gothic. The story moves with the swiftness of a gator in attack mode through the lives of a group of brilliantly rendered characters in contemporary St. John's, Newfoundland -- a city whose spiritual location is somewhere in the heart of Flannery O'Connor country. Its denizens jostle each other in uneasy arabesques of desire, greed, lust, and ambition, juxtaposed with a yearning for purity, depth, and redemption. Meet Madeleine, the driven aging 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; and Colleen, at seventeen a hard-edged female Holden Caulfield, drawn inexorably to the places where alligators thrive. In these pages humanity is a bizarre combination of the reptilian and the saintly. Listen to its heartbeat, and be moved -- and delighted.
Audience
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For bookclub participants.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780887841958
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Copy | Status |
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Corner Brook (WCB) | Bookclub Kit NL | Bookclub Kit NL | FIC MOO | (10 copies) | Checked In |