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Jane Gardam - Old Filth (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
Shortlisted for The Orange Prize 2005.
Old Filth Trilogy #1
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's novel tells his story, from his birth in what was then Malaya to the extremities of his old age. In so doing, she not only encapsulates a whole period from the glory days of British Empire, through the Second World War, to the present and beyond, but also illuminates the complexities of the character known variously as Eddie, the Judge, Fevvers, Filth, Master of the Inner Temple, Teddy and Sir Edward Feathers.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Very Good
- Category : Fiction - Humorous Fiction
- Published : 2004 (This Edition 2018 - Abacus)
- ISBN : 9780349139494
- SKU : B002976
- PPC : LL300gm
- RRP : £8.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
"Beautiful, vivid and defiantly funny.' - The Times.
'A magnificent, deeply moving and compassionate portrait of an era and a sentimental education.' - Daily Mail.
'Jane Gardam's work is rich and diverse and she writes beautifully. She's a treasure of contemporary English writing.' - Ian McEwan.
'I recommend it wholeheartedly for its economy, breadth of narrative, and its insight, humour and pathos.' - Tracey Thorn, Mail on Sunday.
'This novel is surely Gardam's masterpiece. On the human level, it is one of the most moving fictions I have read for years . . . This is the rare novel that drives its reader forward while persistently waylaying and detaining by the sheer beauty and inventiveness of its style. One must savour every phrase. The marriage of quirky eccentricity and psychological authenticity is a Gardam technique, but here her cunning wit, moving deftly between scenes and eras, displays the tragedy of a vintage world forever passing away.' - The Guardian.
The Author
Jane Mary Gardam OBE FRSL is an English writer of children's and adult fiction. She also writes reviews for The Spectator and The Telegraph, and writes for BBC radio. She lives in Kent, Wimbledon, and Yorkshire. She has won numerous literary awards, including the Whitbread Award twice.