ALLIGATOR: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 06481006B08507

English Summary/英文概要： 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 a city whose spiritual location is somewhere in the heart of Flannery O’Connor country. Madeleine, the driven, ageing 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 Colleen, at seventeen, a hard-edged female Holden Caulfield, drawn inexorably to the places where alligators thrive.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Lisa Moore的第一本小說，她是加拿大暢銷小說，英聯邦獎獲得者，環球郵報年度圖書。

動作迅速的短吻鱷迅速地攻擊當代的聖鐘斯紐西蘭。聖鐘斯是個弗蘭納裡奧康納中心區域的城市。其中的居民因欲望、野心、貪婪而互相排擠。但卻虛偽地爭取純潔、深刻和救贖。Colleen是一個17歲的極端環保主義者，一味地探討短吻鱷出沒的地方。她母親Beverly還在為丈夫的去世而痛苦。Beverly的姐姐瑪德琳是位電影製作人，一心想著將她的藝術作品推廣到市場上。弗蘭克，一生經歷各種痛苦的年輕人，努力想要從俄羅斯士兵手中保護自己的熱狗攤位。俄國的士兵Valentin的殺戮捕食欲威脅著所有人。 Alligator 是一本懸疑、震撼人心的故事表現了人心的殘酷一面。（Celia）

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About the Author/作者介绍： Lisa Moore出生在纽芬兰聖鐘斯，在新斯特克大學學藝術和設計，原本她向從事視覺藝術的職業，現在卻成為了全職作家。Moore嫁給了紐芬蘭紀念大學社會學副教授Stephen Crocker。2002的著作Open 就獲得了吉勒獎（Giller Prize）。第一本正式長篇小說《短吻鱷》（Alligator (2005)）也入圍吉勒獎（Giller Prize），2006年獲得英聯邦國家作者新人新書獎，入圍2007年IMPAC Award. Lisa Moore憑藉《二月》(February),入圍2010年布克獎。

Born in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Moore studied art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Although she had intended to follow a career in the visual arts, she now writes full time.

Moore is married to Stephen Crocker, an associate professor of Sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Moore’s 2002 book Open was a commercial and critical breakthrough, earning a nomination for the Giller Prize. Her first novel, Alligator (2005), was also nominated for the Giller Prize. It won the 2006 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award, Caribbean and Canada Region, and was longlisted for the 2007 IMPAC Award. Moore often incorporates her Newfoundland heritage in her work; Alligator, for example, is set in St. John’s. Lisa Moore was one of 13 novelists on the long list for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for her novel February.

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