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050	0	0	_aPR9199.3.M647 _bA78 2005
082	1		_aFIC MOO _2
100	1		_aMoore, Lisa _d(, 1964-)
245	1	0	_aAlligator : _ba novel _c/ Lisa Moore.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aToronto _b: House of Anansi Press _c, 2005
300			_a306 p. _c; 21 cm.
520	3		_aLisa 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.
546			_aEnglish.
586			_aWinner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canadian and Caribbean region).
586			_aGlobe and Mail Book of the Year.
650		4	_aTeenage girls _v--Fiction
651		4	_aSt. Johns (N.L.) _z-Canada _v--Fiction
655			_aDomestic fiction
942			_cMO
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