- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Books USA; Reprint edition (Jun 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 140003230X
- ISBN-13: 978-1400032303
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.3 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 525,892 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Aud (it rhymes with "shroud" ) Torvingen is six feet tall with blond hair and blue eyes. She can restore a log cabin with antique tools or put a man in a coma with her bare hands. As imagined by Nicola Griffith in this ferocious masterpiece of literary noir, Aud is a hero who combines the tortured complexity with moral authority.
In the aftermath of her lover's murder, the last thing a grieving Aud wants is another case. Against her better judgment she agrees to track down an old friend's runaway fiancée--and finds herself up against both a sociopath so artful that the law can't touch him, and the terrible specters of loss and guilt. As stylish as this year's Prada and as arresting as a razor at the throat, Stay places Nicola Griffith in the first rank of new-wave crime writers.
In the aftermath of her lover's murder, the last thing a grieving Aud wants is another case. Against her better judgment she agrees to track down an old friend's runaway fiancée--and finds herself up against both a sociopath so artful that the law can't touch him, and the terrible specters of loss and guilt. As stylish as this year's Prada and as arresting as a razor at the throat, Stay places Nicola Griffith in the first rank of new-wave crime writers.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The spectacular imagery of the remote southern Appalachian mountains, with its buckeye, jewelweed, basswood, and pileated woodpeckers, comes sensuously to life as a lone woman hacks out shingles for a roof on her cabin and hides from visitors. Suddenly, the woman reacts to this quiet, pastoral scene: "An owl screamed in the wood and I wanted to ride behind its eyes when it plunged its talons into living flesh, wanted to tear something warm and soft to pieces while it squealed." With this remarkable sentence, I was totally hooked--by the strong visual images, by the frightening responses of this damaged woman to the sights and sounds around her, and by the emotional desolation of her life.
Aud Torvingen, a former police officer who has killed more than once in the line of duty, has withdrawn from the world to her isolated cabin, grieving and guilt-ridden about the loss of her lover in a shooting she believes to be her fault. When an old friend asks her to find his missing fiancee, Aud journeys to Greenwich Village and a scene of such brutality the reader will not soon forget it. Devastated by the events, Aud understands that she must rebuild her shattered self from the ground up if she ever hopes to recover her life.
Griffith's imagery and psychological acuity are overwhelming. She sets up vivid, sensual contrasts between the pastoral life of Appalachia and the urban life of New York, provides total access to Aud's ravaged psyche, makes the reader truly care for this woman who has killed more than once, and encourages us to hope for her emotional rebirth. The book is stunning, and the writing is truly extraordinary! One caveat, however. While most of us willingly suspend disbelief when faced with excellent, compulsively readable fiction, this book, like some other recent books and films, also encourages us to suspend some of our long held values. Some readers may have trouble accepting the premise here that some people are above the law and that ad hoc, vigilante action is sometimes excusable. Mary Whipple
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This novel is more than I expected it to be.
Reading every word, grief, guilt and miss of lover's touch, scent and closeness...
A heart-aching story of Aud after losing her lover...
If you never lost anybody you loved...yet...this novel can really show how it feels not be being able to be close or touch the people we love the most. Its struggle to recover, and strenght to keep to a promise when you have absolutely no will to do as so.
Makes you think...
Just read and find out for yourself - what is this nivel to you...
Reading every word, grief, guilt and miss of lover's touch, scent and closeness...
A heart-aching story of Aud after losing her lover...
If you never lost anybody you loved...yet...this novel can really show how it feels not be being able to be close or touch the people we love the most. Its struggle to recover, and strenght to keep to a promise when you have absolutely no will to do as so.
Makes you think...
Just read and find out for yourself - what is this nivel to you...
Format:Paperback
'Stay' is the middle book in what is currently a trilogy about Aud Torvingen, a private detective / martial arts teacher. She is tall, beautiful, talented and tormented by the death of her lover whom she swore to protect. Nicola Griffith is better known perhaps for her award winning science fiction but with these books she proves that she is also a master at writing crime/thrillers as well. They are beautifully descriptive, well plotted, emotionally satisfying and Aud herself is a most wonderful creation.
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Better than its predecessor
OK, I was wrong. This is the sequel to The Blue Place, and on finishing that, I was not expecting its successor to be particular good. Read more
Published on 13 April 2007 by Paul Magnussen
Absolutely Wonderful
Nicola Griffith keeps up the high quality of intelligent thriller begun in "The Blue Place", already I am waiting for the next installment. Read more
Published on 9 May 2002
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