RYAN, David
Alligator
A man falls to his death at a construction site, triggering a butterfly effect of connections among complete strangers … a woman house-sitting a summer house unintentionally opens a portal of demons in the wall while meditating … a young boy, after the death of his father, follows his grief-stricken mother each night as she sleepwalks … an elusive, shapeshifting image of an alligator washes through the half-dreamed, half-real experiences of, possibly, the last moments of a life…
In Alligator, David Ryan’s experiments in language and form produce 23 stark, lyrical stories that explore the human condition. Kaleidoscopic, surprising, and occasionally shocking, Ryan’s liminal realism shifts between incantatory parables and a hard-scrabble, fractured reality, rooted in the deep, visceral logic of memory, wild impulse, and dream. Alligator‘s stories collect desire, dislocation of family, love, and estrangement into a brutalist architecture—where occasional sharp eruptions of chaos co-exist with hope and grace.
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Published by C4g Books, 2026
Literature
Price: 18€
