![]() ![]() The Rental Heart points to three characteristics that, to me, define Logan’s collection as a whole: powerful use of language the structures of fantasy and fairytale and a concern with love in its various manifestations. Add in Logan’s sensual prose, and you have a heady concoction indeed. The central idea of the mechanical hearts is an effective metaphor for love but is not reducible to a metaphor – it makes intuitive sense, but not literal sense, and that helps give the story its air of strangeness and magic. I fell.”Īs a fantasy story, ‘The Rental Heart’ works beautifully. She was dreadlocked, greeneyed, full of verbs. Logan’s narrator talks us through a string of relationships in abstract, evocative language: The Rental Heart takes us to a version of reality in which people fit themselves with mechanical hearts each time they fall in love – hearts that fail when that love ends. ![]() Open Kirsty Logan’s debut collection, and you’ll be met first with the title story, which broadly sets the tone for what is to come. ![]()
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