{"product_id":"9780887847554","title":"Alligator","description":"\u003cp\u003eLisa Moore's \u003cem\u003eAlligator\u003c\/em\u003e 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 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; and Colleen, at seventeen a hard-edged female Holden Caulfield, drawn inexorably to the places where alligators thrive. In these pages humanity is a bizarre combination of the reptilian and the saintly. Listen to its heartbeat, and be moved -- and delighted.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lisa Moore (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":30448741384256,"sku":"9780887847554","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0112\/1065\/3760\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4b589d58-8768-4253-98fb-32508cf368f1.jpg?v=1570251200","url":"https:\/\/onceuponabookstore.ca\/products\/9780887847554","provider":"Once Upon a Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}