Slow River
Nicola Griffith. Ballantine Books, $15 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-345-39537-5
Set in a dystopian future, Griffith's second novel involves a woman's search for identity. (Aug.)
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Reviewed on: 08/19/1996
Genre: Fiction
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