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Old Filth by Jane Gardam (Paperback, 2014)
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ISBN-13: 9780349139494, 978-0349139494. Old Filth Author(s): Jane Gardam. 'I love Jane Gardam, especially Old Filth' Nina Stibbe. 'One of the finest writers around. Yet through it all he has carried with him the wounds of a difficult and emotionally hollow childhood.
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'I love Jane Gardam, especially Old Filth' Nina Stibbe 'One of the finest writers around. Old Filth has stayed with me for years...Can't think of anyone who achieves so much with so few words' Sathnam Sanghera 'Her work, like Sylvia Townsend Warner's, has that appealing combination of elegance, erudition and flinty wit' Patrick Gale Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the bar. Yet through it all he has carried with him the wounds of a difficult and emotionally hollow childhood. Now an eighty-year-old widower living in comfortable seclusion in Dorset, Feathers is finally free from the demands of his work and the sentimental scaffolding that has sustained him throughout his life. He slips back into the past with ever mounting frequency and intensity, and on the tide of these vivid, lyrical musings, Feathers approaches a reckoning with his own history. Not all the old filth, it seems, can be cleaned away. Jane Gardam has written a literary masterpiece that retraces much of the twentieth century's torrid and momentous history. Feathers' childhood in Malaya during the British Empire's heyday, his schooling in pre-war England, his professional success in Southeast Asia and his return to England toward the end of the millennium, are vantage points from which the reader can observe the march forward of an eventful era and the steady progress of that man, Sir Edward Feathers, Old Filth himself, who embodies the century's fate.Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
ISBN-139780349139494
eBay Product ID (ePID)176816299
Product Key Features
Book TitleOld Filth
AuthorJane Gardam
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2014
Number of Pages272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height205mm
Item Width163mm
Item Weight218g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJane Gardam
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 26 Aug, 2020
Great period (mid 20thC) story set in London and Hong Kong and finally somewhere in southern England (I forget where) about a love triangle.
It's the first part of a trilogy, which I'd read but had lent this book to someone and it had gone missing. I wanted to send the three books to a friend as a present. Got this easily on eBay at a very good price and the recipient is delighted with her gift. Thanks eBay!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
