The Washington Post, September 18th, 1998
SOFT! By Rupert Thomson Knopf. 307 pp. $24 Barker Dodds, wretched English no-hoper, scares people to death. He is a nightclub bouncer and strong-arm man, a person who gouges out eyes and snaps bones like brittle sticks and deals continually in human blood and gristle. But he's about done with that life, or trying to be done with it. It's too much -- he's lost women he's loved, he's lost his youth, and he's finally even lost his taste for the fleeting buzz of violence. He's not ignorant. He's a history buff, familiar with the Venerable Bede and Gregory of Tours. Barker has become, without real...
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