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The 2007 Award

Alligator by Lisa Moore


 

 

Nominated by:

  • St. John's Public Libraries, St John's, Canada

 

Publisher of Nominated Edition
House of Anansi Press ISBN 0887841953

 

the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors
ABOUT THE BOOK
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, Newfoundland -- a 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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lisa Moore's Open was a finalist for the 2002 Giller Prize and a national bestseller, and her work has also appeared in Canada's most prestigious literary magazines.

Lisa Moore writes a biweekly column in the Globe and Mail and lives in St. John's with her husband and two children.


 

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