Alligator
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Openers
- 1. Colleen
- 2. Frank
- 3. Colleen
- 4. Beverly
- 5. Colleen
- 6. Beverly
- 7. Madeleine
- 8. Beverly
- 9. Colleen
- 10. Beverly
- 11. Frank
- 12. Colleen
- 13. Valentin
- 14. Colleen
- 15. Frank
- 16. Madeleine
- 17. Beverly
- 18. Valentin
- 19. Mr. Duffy
- 20. Colleen
- 21. Madeleine
- 22. Frank
- 23. Madeleine
- 24. Colleen
- 25. Madeleine
- 26. Frank
- 27. Madeleine
- 28. Colleen
- 29. Mr. Duffy
- 30. Madeleine
- 31. Frank
- 32. Madeleine
- 33. Valentin
- 34. Colleen
- 35. Madeleine
- 36. Colleen
- 37. Frank
- 38. Colleen
- 39. Frank
- 40. Colleen
- 41. Isobel
- 42. Madeleine
- 43. Frank
- 44. Colleen
- 45. Madeleine
- 46. Beverly
- 47. Loyola
- 48. Madeleine
- 49. Colleen
- 50. Frank
- 51. Kevin
- 52. Frank
- 53. Valentin
- 54. Frank
- 55. Colleen
- 56. Frank
- 57. Carol
- 58. Frank
- 59. Isobel
- 60. Frank
- 61. Isobel
- 62. Madeleine
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- About the Publisher
