Alligator
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- ISBN: 9780887848445 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0887848443 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (321 p.) - Publisher: New York : House of Anansi Press, 2011.
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General Note: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Subject: | Teenage girls -- Fiction St. John's (N.L.) -- Fiction |
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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.