9780345395375
Slow River
Nicola Griffith
ISBN 13: 9780345395375
Publisher: Del Rey
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Softcover
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She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still bleeding, and her identity implant was gone. Lore Van Oesterling had been the daughter of one of the worlds most powerful families...and now she was nobody, and she had to hide. Then out of the rain walked Spanner, predator and thief, who took her in, cared for her wound, and taught her how to reinvent herself again and again. No one could find Lore now: not the police, not her family, and not the kidnappers who had left her in that alley to die. She had escaped...but the cost of her newfound freedom was crime and deception, and she paid it over and over again, until she had become someone she loathed.Lore had a choice: She could stay in the shadows, stay with Spanner...and risk losing herself forever. Or she could leave Spanner and find herself again by becoming someone else: stealing the identity implant of a dead woman, taking over her life, and creating a new future. But to start again, Lore required Spanners talents--Spanner, who needed her and hated her, and who always had a price. And even as Lore agreed to play Spanner's game one final time, she found that there was still the price of being a Van Oesterling to be paid. Only by confronting her family, her past, and her own demons could Lore meld together who she had once been, who she had become, and the person she intended to be...
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"In both theme and imagery, Slow River invites comparison to such death-and-rebirth epics as the Sumerian descent of Inanna or the attempt of Orpheus to bring Eurydice back from Hades....Rarely has this reviewer wished so fervently for a sequel!"
Lambda Book Report
Review:"With her rich imagination, Griffith has created an intriguing world and a character who not only makes her way through it with boldness and creativity, but takes the time to reflect as she goes. Lore confronts moral dilemmas, faces the pain of her past, and eventually finds an identity centered in herself rather than in that most modern of ectoplasms: electrons and photons that flitted silently across the data nets of the world."
San Francisco Chronicle
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