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From: bookie Category: Books Date: 23 September 2007 Time: 05:55 AM Review: SOmeone should write a history of writers fixated on dick-size. Like Hemingway saying to Fitzgerald in the urinal, it's the perspective that makes it look small. Well who's laughing now Papa, you may have got the knobel, but he's got the huge credibility. All Ford's heroes seem to have big dicks (perhaps he equates this with an increased propensity to infidelity) and of the women we here little about their vaginal capacity, the stories all seem to involve a lot of time in The Drake Hotel, ex-ball players, and something about us imagining our real lives, a twist of hardboiled dialogue, a couple of martinis, some estate agents, a trip to a hotel off sloane square, and poignant ambiguous sad endings. Ah, shut up already, american fiction of the lonesome american soul.