Finder: A Novel of the Borderlands - Hardcover

Emma Bull

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312854188 ISBN 13: 9780312854188

Publisher: Tor Books, 1994

Synopsis

Sunny Rico, a tough cop's daughter, enters into a professional partnership with Orient, a down-and-out mystic with a talent for finding lost things, as they struggle to protect a city on the edge of Fairie. By the author of Bone Dance.

About this title

About the Author:

Emma Bull was born in 1954 in Torrance, California. She now lives in Minneapolis and is also the author of War for the Oaks and Bone Dance.

From School Library Journal:

YA?Finder is a delightful bit of alchemistry that deftly blends the detective and fantasy genres. Orient is a young man with unique "talent": ask him "where is..." and add the "non-abstract noun of your choice" and he will be tugged toward the object. In the World, this odd ability made his life nearly unbearable, but in Bordertown, the mysterious land at the edge of Faerie, such magical abilities are appreciated, and Orient earns his living using his peculiar gift. An uneasy truce exists between the fey and the human, but a lethal drug that promises the credulous the opportunity to pass the border into Faerie threatens Bordertown's stability with a trail of deaths. Enter Sunny Rico, a hard-boiled lady cop who is more than ready to have Orient find a variety of things she hopes will help her track down the killers. The characters get under your skin, and a world in which the young and disaffected are willing to risk death in a mad bid for redemption is oddly familiar in spite of the setting. Bull's delicate touch allows her to exploit the genre crossover with particular success?as in the best of both genres, the tragedy seeps through the thrills, humor, and relationships so slowly that one finds the tears on one's cheek with a shock.?Cathy Chauvette, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
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About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0312854188
• ISBN 13: 9780312854188
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 317
• Illustrator: Richard Bober