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Former bouncer Barker Dodds wants nothing more than to flee his violent past inhis native Plymouth for an uncertain new existence as a barber in Londonscolorful East End. Waiflike Glade Spencer drifts through life as a waitress ata fashionable Soho restaurant a devoted daughter to her estranged caravandwelling father and a longdistance girlfriend to an unpredictable Americanlawyer. And ambitious soft drink branch manager Jimmy Lyle is eager to pleasehis new American boss with a revolutionary marketing strategy for Soft onethat promises to make the new orangecolored beverage a soda sensation for thetwentyfirst century.It is under that effervescent orange glow that these three disparate soulsintersect as each learns there is nothing soft about the soft drinksindustry. When unsuspecting Soft ambassador Glade begins to unravel fromher subconscious obsession with a product shes never tried Jimmys topsecretcampaign threatens to spill into the daily papers and Barker once again findshimself employed as a thugforhire. At turns harrowing and darkly humorousSoft is a magnificently surreal story one that New York Times critic MichikoKakutani calls Rupert Thomsons most powerful novel yet. «
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