Alligator

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• Alligator

  by Lisa Moore The transition from writing short fiction (especially good short fiction) to writing novel-length fiction is one fraught with peril. With her first novel, Alligator, Giller-nominated St. John’s writer Lisa Moore faces that challenge not ... (read full critics)

  quillandquire published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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  maybe the alligator ate it?

  paralell stories of a teen and her mother dealing with the loss of a parent/husband and the trials of adolescence. Done in short chapters switching back in forth between a cast of characters from a Russian sailor to the teen's filmaker aunt...but never pulls together. There must be a story there, bu ... (continue)

  paralell stories of a teen and her mother dealing with the loss of a parent/husband and the trials of adolescence. Done in short chapters switching back in forth between a cast of characters from a Russian sailor to the teen's filmaker aunt...but never pulls together. There must be a story there, but it never came through for me...

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• English Books
• Paperback 320 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 1844081303
• ISBN-13: 9781844081301
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Pub date: Jul 05, 2007
• Also available as: Hardcover and Others

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