Moore, Lisa  (, 1964-) <br/><br/>
Alligator :  a novel 
/ Lisa Moore. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Toronto  : House of Anansi Press  , 2005 
 - 306 p.  ; 21 cm. 
<br/><br/> Lisa Moore's first novel moves with the swiftness of an alligator in attack mode through the lives of a group of characters mingling in contemporary St. John's, Newfoundland. St. John's is a city whose spiritual location is somewhere in the heart of Flannery O'Connor country. Its denizens jostle one another in uneasy arabesques of desire, greed, and ambition, juxtaposed with a yearning for purity, depth, and redemption. Colleen is a seventeen-year-old would-be ecoterrorist, drawn inexorably to the places where alligators thrive. Her mother, Beverly, is cloaked in grief after the death of her husband. Beverly's sister, Madeleine, is a driven, aging filmmaker who obsesses over completing her magnum opus before she dies. And Frank, a young man whose life is a strange anthology of unpredictable dangers, is desperate to protect his hot-dog stand from sociopathic Russian sailor Valentin, whose predatory tendencies threaten everyone he encounters. Alligator is a remarkable book, a suspenseful, heartfelt, and sexy story that examines the ruthlessly reptilian and painfully human sides of all of us. 
<br/><br/><br/>English. 
<br/><br/> Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canadian and Caribbean region).  Globe and Mail Book of the Year. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780802170255 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>20059037423 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Teenage girls----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>St. Johns (N.L.)---Canada----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Domestic fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR9199.3.M647  / A78 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC MOO