|
Author: Lisa Moore
|
Oct 2002
 | Open
by Lisa Moore
Anansi
218 pages $24.95 cloth
ISBN: 0887841791
|
Skittish Dance of Relationshipsùits Tangled Ambivalence
by Kjeld Haraldsen
The messy sprawl of life, its contingencies, concessions; the chanciness, the often offhand, flippant gamble of our biggest life decisions, their repercussions, ramifications; the white, obliterating heat of desire; the intricacies of grief: these passages, these inevitabilities provide the bedrock for the stories in Newfoundland writer Lisa Moore's outstanding new collection, Open.
Moore zaps us with bracing metaphors, stabs of jabbing, tart wit. Funny, brainy. Read more...
| Nov 2005
 | Alligator
by Lisa Moore
House of Anansi
304 pages $29.95 cloth
ISBN: 0887841953
|
The Vulnerable and the Predator
by Nancy Wigston
Lisa Moore is a highly inventive wordsmith whose talents have earned her a place on the Giller Prize Shortlist for the second time. Alligator opens with an exceptionally vivid scene: Colleen, a teenaged girl in St. John's, views a documentary film her artistic aunt Madeleine made twenty-odd years ago. In front of astonished witnesses, a professional alligator-wrestler in Louisiana just escapes with his life when the beast he knows so well attempts to devour him. Read more...
| JanFeb 2006
 | Alligator
by Lisa Moore
House of Anansi
303 pages $29.95
ISBN: 0887841953
|
First Novels
by W.P. Kinsella
Alligator by Lisa Moore (House of Anansi, $29.95, 303 pages, ISBN: 0887841953). It is certainly curious that this very average first novel was on the shortlist for the Giller Prize. There are a group of interesting characters who interact, but the novel's main shortcoming is that it is no one's story. There is no central character. Beverly is a grief-stricken widow; her teenage daughter Colleen is a tramp, and a failed eco-terrorist. Read more...
|
|
|
