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Signs of Life (Paperback)

by M.John Harrison (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Flamingo; New Ed edition (20 April 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006546048
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006546047
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,008,501 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Mick Rose runs a sometimes illegal courier service to the genetics industry. His lover Isobel is dissatisfied - she wants to be more beautiful. When she takes a new DNA-based genetic treatment, Mick finds out more than he wants to know about the goods his firm has been carrying.

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5.0 out of 5 stars a fine book from a master writer, 30 Jun 2003
By Steven Davis (Stamford, Linc's England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Signs Of Life (Hardcover)
If I had the money I would put a copy of this book in every hotel room in the world. It is a book that contains such fine writing everyone should get a chance to read it.
John M Harrison is a writer at the top of his trade; his use of prose is sublime. Somehow he can convey in four or five words things most writers struggle to tell you in a whole paragraph.
The three main characters are as if written by Picasso bold confident outline with the details rendered minimally but the resulting portrait is more powerful than the most detailed word pictures.
The story is about life love rejection rebirth, I have read this book countless times and the emphasis of the story changes every time I read it.
This is a fine book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Not for everybody., 23 May 1999
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Requires the reader to have a functioning imagination.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Shades of Cornelius, 5 May 2001
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The only stories to match Moorcock's in the Jerry Cornelius collection The New Nature of the Catastrophe are M. John Harrison's, written in the early 70s. While Harrison was using a technique borrowed from Moorcock, he was still using it to promote his own ideas. If anyone thinks this book lacks substance, I suggest they check out Harrison's Cornelius stories. They will find recurring obsessions if not the depth of this novel. Harrison is a fine, substantial writer with a long career, in which he has matured and expanded his range. This is not his best work, but it is better than 99% of anything else I've found so far! In England, I mean, not here!
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