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Synopsis
Chronicles the symbiotic relationship between Mike Rose--head of a courier company that serves the genetics industry, and Isobel Avens--a woman twenty years younger than he and obsessed with the desire to fly
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Review
Clive Barker says of M. John Harrison, "His books are fictions of elegant delirium, dark and transcendent by turns." Ramsey Campbell calls him "the master of enigma, whether human or supernatural." Like Jonathan Carroll, Harrison is a British writer who transgresses conventional genre boundaries. Signs of Life is about Mick "China" Rose, an unassuming fellow who runs a shady and lucrative medical-transport-cum-waste-disposal business. Along with his partner, Choe, and his lover, Isobel, China drives souped-up vehicles at ferocious speeds through a dreamlike world where dystopian fantasies of biomedical wrongdoings blend with the subtly shifted reality of Harrison's Britain. Choe is a self-destructive child-man who thrashes from an unattainable idyllic past to an unstructured future full of gangsters and rancid waste dumps. Isobel values beauty and longs for physical transformation. As their destinies unfold, the story is not quite horrific, but it's superbly written and chilling, the kind of novel that will haunt you for days.
About the Author
Mike Harrison is the author of several novels and many short stories - all marked out by their literary excellence and critical reputation. He edited New Worlds Magazine with Michael Moorcock. He writes full time and also reviews for the TLS and The Guardian amongst others. He lives in Shropshire.
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0312156561
- ISBN 13 9780312156565
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages255
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