by M . John Harrison (Author)
When a writer like M. John Harrison looks at love, you know the results will be unusual and compelling, evocative and imaginative, dark, depressing and transcendent. In SIGNS OF LIFE, the beautiful Isobel Avens dreams of flying like a bird; Mick 'China' Rose runs a fast (and sometimes illegal) courier service to the genetics industry. When they meet and become lovers, it sets off an unstoppable train of events. Set in London and Budapest, against a backdrop of cosmetic surgery, genetic engineering and medical waste-dumping, SIGNS OF LIFE is both a sparely written thriller and an unforgettable love story. THE COURSE OF THE HEART follows three students whose lives are changed forever by the ritual they carry out one May night in a Cambridge meadow. To escape the consequences, they seek out the Coeur, a country which emerges from the shifting borders of Europe under only the most special conditions. In the Coeur anything is possible: even hope; even redemption.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
Edition: paperback / softback
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 14 Apr 2005
ISBN 10: 0575075945
ISBN 13: 9780575075948
Book Overview: 'His books are fictions of elegant delirium, dark and transcendent by turns ... exquisitely wrought and brilliantly imagined, erotic, chilling, visionary: the work of a great imaginer and an extraordinary writer' Clive Barker 'A curious and accomplished writer' Robert Nye, Guardian 'The complex but unhesitant shuttle of Harrison's overlapping narrative draws us remorselessly towards the revelation of a great secret' Iain Sinclair 'Harrison's imagination is merciless. His fiction is a scalpel slicing through the skin of the world to make dissections both strange and familiar ... putting him in the company of Ian McEwan and Peter Carey, but he is grittier than Carey and wittier than McEwan' TLS 'Harrison's vision is compelling' Financial Times 'Harrison draws the reader on by the clarity of his vision and writing' The Independent M. John Harrison's LIGHT was a huge critical success, winning the Tiptree Award and being shortlisted for the British SF Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award 'I think this will soon be regarded as one of the most dazzling novels of its genre' Daily Telegraph on LIGHT
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