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Alligator : a novel

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.

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  • ""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"--Page 4 of cover."
  • "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."
  • "Colleen ist siebzehn und möchte die Welt verändern. Ihre Mutter Beverly, die seit dem Tod ihres Mannes mit der Liebe für ihre rebellierende Tochter ringt, sieht ratlos zu, wie diese aus ihrem Zuhause in Kanada Richtung USA flieht. Während Colleen in Louisiana dem Abenteuer und der fixen Idee nachjagt, einen Alligatorzüchter zu finden, den ihre Tante, die lebenshungrige Filmemacherin Madeleine, einst bei einer fast tödlichen Aktion gefilmt hatte, versucht Beverly neben den Erinnerungen an ihr altes Leben einen neuen Platz zu finden. Voller Tiefe und Witz erzählt Lisa Moore von drei ungewöhnlichen Frauen, die die Menschen, die sie am meisten lieben, verlassen - oder von ihnen verlassen werden. Lisa Moore, 1964 in St. John's, Neufundland, geboren, studierte Kunst am Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Sie ist eine der talentiertesten Schriftstellerinnen ihrer Generation, ihr Debütroman Im Rachen des Alligators sowie ihr Erzählungsband Open waren nationale Bestseller. Mit ihrem Roman Und wieder Februar (Hanser, 2011) war sie Finalistin für den Man Booker Prize 2010."
  • "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."@en
  • "Madeleine, the driven 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. This is a novel where humanity is a bizarre combination of the reptilian and the saintly."
  • "De kruisende levenspaden van zes mensen op Newfoundland."
  • "The lives of various characters intertwine in contemporary St. John's, Newfoundland."

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  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Nouvelles canadiennes de langue anglaise"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en

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  • "Alligator : a novel"
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  • "Im Rachen des Alligators Roman"
  • "Im Rachen des Alligators"
  • "Im Rachen des Alligators : Roman"
  • "Alligator"
  • "Alligator : roman"
  • "Alligator a novel"
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