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Anima: Signs of Life/Course of the Heart: Signs of Life - Course of the Heart (Gollancz S.F.) (Paperback)

by M. John Harrison (Author)
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  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz (14 April 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0575075945
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575075948
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 259,712 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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.

About the Author
M. John Harrison was born in the Peak District and now lives in London.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Britain's greatest living writer., 20 Aug 2005
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If you've never read any M.John Harrison before, this would be a great place to start. The Course of the Heart is in my opinion his greatest novel. The story revolves around three friends who, as students, become entangled with a strange magician/con-man/nut-case called Lucas Medlar. Through him they experience something so terrifying that they spend the rest of their lives coming to terms with it.
Signs of Life is also brilliant. It shares some qualities with The Course of the Heart, but it has a harder, more angry, more satirical heart.Despite this, it's characters are all real and human, sympathetic and completely compelling. Again it involves the relationship between three main characters. Again, two males and one female. As the female characters obssession with flying begins to take a dark turn, the relationship between the three falls apart. It's a vicious satire and critique of post-Thatcherite Britain, but it's a page-turning thriller and it's a heart-breaking depiction of a failing relationship.
But above all this, apart from the complex, multi-faceted, multi-layed nature of any Harrison book, what you get is the best, most seductive prose of any writer I can think of. He just writes the best sentences.
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2.0 out of 5 stars A dull and tedious read, 4 May 2009
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I purchased this book after reading 'Light' by the same author - a book that I liked a lot. This book is very slow and pretty uninteresting.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and enjoyable, 13 Jul 2005
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The writing was faultless for the main part, vivid and affecting as all literary books should be. The plot of the second story bemused me by its absence, along with a number of completely unlovable characters, but this is still worth reading whatever flaws it might have.
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