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One of those novels every writer should read, if only because it introduces the notion of the "unreliable narrator." I always thought it started as a conscious parody of Henry James, then straightened up as it found its own path toward the horrors of madness and suicide. One of Ford's best books, though, because of its unpleasant subject, not nearly as re-readable as Fifth Queen, which I think stands Ford's great masterpiece of a novel. -- Christian Gehman