Alligator - Brossura

Moore, Lisa

Brossura

ISBN 10: 184408129X ISBN 13: 9781844081295

Casa editrice: Virago, 2006

Riassunto

Lisa Moore's Alligator moves with the swiftness of a gator in attack mode through the lives of a group of brilliantly rendered characters in a city whose spiritual location is somewhere in the heart of Flannery O'Connor country. Madeleine, the driven, ageing 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 Colleen, at seventeen, a hard-edged female Holden Caulfield, drawn inexorably to the places where alligators thrive.

Madeleine, the driven, ageing 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 Colleen, at seventeen, a hard-edged female Holden Caulfield, drawn inexorably to the places where alligators thrive.

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Recensione:

[She] is from Newfoundland - a rare and fortunate inheritance for any novelist. But she can also flat-out write, and would be a major find even if she came from Kansas (Richard Ford, author of Independence Day)

Compelling and rewarding . . . surprisingly emotional, rich with human feeling and insight. Moore has a keen ear for both dialogue and a well-turned phrase, and the writing is suffused with a reckless joy (Robert J. Wiersema, Quill & Quire)

'An astonishing writer. She brings to her pages what we are always seeking in fiction and only find in the best of it: a magnetizing gift for revealing how the earth feels, looks, tastes, smells (Richard Ford, author of Independence Day)

Descrizione del libro:

From Newfoundland comes a fabulous new voice in a novel where humanity is a bizarre combination of the reptilian and the saintly. Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller, the Canadian Booker Prize and regional winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize.

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• Editore: Virago
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 184408129X
• ISBN 13: 9781844081295
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320