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DescriptionIn 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's night storm. In the early hours of the next morning, all 84 men aboard died. Promotion infoFrom the publishers of Mary Lawson and Alice Munro, a moving and masterful novel by 'an astonishing writer' (Richard Ford) ReviewsAn astonishing writer. She brings to her pages what we are always seeking in fiction and only find in the best of it: a magnetizing gift for revealing how the earth feels, looks, tastes, smells, and an unswerving instinct for what's important in life. Lisa Moore's work is passionate, gritty, lucid and beautiful. She has a great gift. A tragedy at sea, a miracle on paper...Moore offers us, elegantly, exultantly, the very consciousness of her characters. In this way, she does more than make us feel for them. She makes us feel what they feel, which is the point of literature and maybe even the point of being human. Globe and Mail 20090609 A marvellous book Winnipeg Free Press 20090609 Author description<p>Lisa Moore is the acclaimed author of Alligator, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Canada and the Caribbean, a finalist for the Giller Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her story collection Open was also a finalist for the Giller. Both books were bestsellers in Canada. Lisa Moore lives with her husband and two children in St John's, Newfoundland.</p> |