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Beautiful Isobel Avens dreams of flying like a bird. She meets Mick "China" Rose at a small aerodrome in the Midlands and they become lovers. Isobel is dissatisfied with her life and tries a new DNA-based genetic treatment, and Mick finds out what his firm has been carrying for years.
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‘Imagine Reservoir Dogs scripted by Alan Bennett and you will have some idea of the flavour... superbly realized.’
The Times
‘Remarkable... Signs of Life is a glorious hybrid, mixing elements of science fiction and literary art into a striking fable that reads like little else currently on bookshop shelves. His dystopian view of a Britain running riot with unregulated biotechnology is truly frightening.’
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‘Brilliantly sustained. If you’ve never discovered M. John Harrison, now’s your chance. Far too long the most underrated writer of his generation, he’s one of the best we’ve got.’
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‘Like all good literature, Harrison’s stories are worth reading again and again; the more you read, the more you understand.’
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A literary novel of the highest order, a vivid, unblinking look at life and love in the 80s from a hugely influential and talented author
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- PublisherOrion
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0575055561
- ISBN 13 9780575055568
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Gary Day-Ellison, jacket design, art direction, and illustration. (illustrator). 1st Edition. The dust jacket is unclipped (£16.99). 5 4 3 2 1 number line. Signed by the author on the title page. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 004260
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Book Description Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page by Harrison. Complex, moving novel about Mick Rose, who runs a courier service for genetic engineering corporations with his best friend Choe Ashton, and Isobel Avens, Mick's true love whose obsession with flying leads her to subject herself to genetic modification. "SIGNS OF LIFE is something of a rewrite of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's classic science-fiction novel ROADSIDE PICNIC (1972) . yet the textures and tones of this story come closer to horror than to anything else. Indeed, of the handful of texts within the genre devoted to ecological horror, SIGNS OF LIFE is probably the most powerfully accomplished." - Rob Latham, Necrofile: The Review of Horror Literature #27 (1998), p. 5. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#164440). Seller Inventory # 164440
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