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Slow River by Nicola Griffith6/5/2023 This lasted for a few years, and then one day I woke up and realized that this was no longer a phase, or a game, or a diverting interlude it was my life. Begging for food and selling amphetamines for a living felt like a radical act: I was hardcore. I submerged myself in this new reality utterly. My lover and I were hanging with bikers and drug-dealers and prostitutes. In Hull-a city whose economy was failing and drains collapsing-I had no job and no money. I stumbled from three square meals a day in a conventional lower middle-class atmosphere of wall-to-wall carpets and central heating into another world. And then when I was eighteen I ran away from home to live with my girlfriend in another city, Hull. I did not know that there was any other way to live. I was raised in a very conventional white middle-class Catholic family, and taught to always obey the rules-stay within the system and the system will protect you. It is now a bustling regional financial center. I was born in Leeds which grew to its present size during the textile revolution. The first experience was when I was eighteen, the second almost ten years later. Slow River comes from the intersection of two different experiences, both of which changed my perceptions of myself and my place in the world. Current US cover (Ballantine/Del Rey), current UK ebook (Gateway/Orion), original US cover (Ballantine/Del Rey), current UK print edition (Gollancz Masterworks), original UK edition (Voyager/HarperCollins).
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