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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.
The New York Times Book Review, Gerald Jonas
Harrison's quirky narrative strategy makes sense, if only in retrospect. Everything that happens to Isobel and her tiresome friends before the transformation is prologue, intended to heighten the impact of her decision and its aftermath. Readers who stay the course may be astonished at how much pity and sorrow Isobel's fate evokes.
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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.
The New York Times Book Review, Gerald Jonas
Harrison's quirky narrative strategy makes sense, if only in retrospect. Everything that happens to Isobel and her tiresome friends before the transformation is prologue, intended to heighten the impact of her decision and its aftermath. Readers who stay the course may be astonished at how much pity and sorrow Isobel's fate evokes.
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- Negative Space: Manny Farber On The Movies by Manny Farber on page 319
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps : The Music of George Harrison by Simon Leng in Back Matter
- The Course of the Heart by M. John Harrison in Front Matter
- Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations: The Limits of Science in Understanding Who We Are by Barbara Katz Rothman in Back Matter