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 contemporary St. John's, Newfoundlandβa city whose spiritual location is somewhere in Flannery O'Connor country. Its denizens jostle each other in uneasy ara
Alligator
β Scribed by Lisa Moore
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press Inc.
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 172 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
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 contemporary St. John's, Newfoundlandβa city whose spiritual location is somewhere in Flannery O'Connor country. Its denizens jostle each other in uneasy arabesques of desire, greed, lust, and ambition, while yearning for purity, depth, and redemption.
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