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Product Identifiers
PublisherEuropa Editions, Incorporated
ISBN-101933372133
ISBN-139781933372136
eBay Product ID (ePID)50791230
Product Key Features
Book TitleOld Filth
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLegal, General, Literary
Publication Year2006
GenreFiction
AuthorJane Gardam
Book SeriesThe Old Filth Trilogy Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight13 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2018-297813
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2005 ORANGE PRIZE Praise for Old Filth "Old Filth belongs in the Dickensian pantheon of memorable characters." -- The New York Times Book Review "[ Old Filth ] will bring immense pleasure to readers who treasure fiction that is intelligent, witty, sophisticated and--a quality encountered all too rarely in contemporary culture--adult." -- The Washington Post "Gardam is an exquisite storyteller, picking up threads, laying them down, returning to them and giving them new meaning... Old Filth is sad, funny, beautiful and haunting."-- The Seattle Times "A masterpiece of storytelling."-- The Dallas Morning News "Jane Gardam's beautiful, vivid, defiantly funny novel is a must."-- The Times , SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2005 ORANGE PRIZE Praise for Old Filth "Excellent and compulsively readable...Old Filth belongs in the Dickensian pantheon of memorable characters." -- The New York Times Book Review "[ Old Filth ] will bring immense pleasure to readers who treasure fiction that is intelligent, witty, sophisticated and--a quality encountered all too rarely in contemporary culture--adult." -- The Washington Post "Gardam is an exquisite storyteller, picking up threads, laying them down, returning to them and giving them new meaning... Old Filth is sad, funny, beautiful and haunting." -- The Seattle Times "A masterpiece of storytelling." -- The Dallas Morning News "Jane Gardam's beautiful, vivid, defiantly funny novel is a must." -- The Times Praise for Jane Gardam "[Gardam] is a brilliant writer. Her prose sparkles with wit, compassion and humor." --The Washington Post "[Gardam] is the best kind of literary escape: serious, mesmerizing, and deeply satisfying." --Los Angeles Review of Books "It's hard...not to be charmed by a writer with Gardam's substantial gifts." --The New York Times Book Review "Gardam's prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted." --The New Yorker "Gardam is a unique and wonderful writer." --The Huffington Post , SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2005 ORANGE PRIZE Praise for Old Filth "Excellent and compulsively readable...Old Filth belongs in the Dickensian pantheon of memorable characters." -- The New York Times Book Review "[ Old Filth ] will bring immense pleasure to readers who treasure fiction that is intelligent, witty, sophisticated and--a quality encountered all too rarely in contemporary culture--adult." -- The Washington Post "Gardam is an exquisite storyteller, picking up threads, laying them down, returning to them and giving them new meaning... Old Filth is sad, funny, beautiful and haunting." -- The Seattle Times "A masterpiece of storytelling." -- The Dallas Morning News "Jane Gardam's beautiful, vivid, defiantly funny novel is a must." -- The Times Praise for Jane Gardam "[Gardam] is a brilliant writer. Her prose sparkles with wit, compassion and humor." --The Washington Post "[Gardam] is the best kind of literary escape: serious, mesmerizing, and deeply satisfying." --Los Angeles Review of Books "It's hard...not to be charmed by a writer with Gardam's substantial gifts." --The New York Times Book Review "Gardam's prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted." --The New Yorker "Gardam is a unique and wonderful writer." --The Huffington Post
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Series Volume Number1
Dewey Decimal823/.914
SynopsisBook One in Jane Gardam's Old Filth Trilogy 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 (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the English 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 regimen of 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. Borrowing from biography and history, Jane Gardam has written a literary masterpiece reminiscent of Rudyard Kipling's Baa Baa, Black Sheep 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., First in the Old Filth trilogy. A New York Times Notable Book. "Old Filth belongs in the Dickensian pantheon of memorable characters" ( The New York Times Book Review ). 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 (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the English bar. Yet through it all he has carried with him the wounds of a difficult childhood. Now an eighty-year-old widower living in comfortable seclusion in Dorset, Feathers is finally free from the regimen of 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. Borrowing from biography and history, Jane Gardam has written an unforgettable novel reminiscent of Evan S. Connell's books Mr. Bridge and Mrs. Bridge , and Rudyard Kipling's Baa Baa, Black Sheep . Retracing much of the twentieth century's torrid and momentous history, Old Filth is the first installment of an immersive and atmospheric trilogy that, taken together, tells the moving story of a long, complicated marriage. " Old Filth is an extraordinary novel--the structure, the characters, the sweep of time."--Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House "I don't know why Gardam isn't universally celebrated and beloved. Her prose is dazzling, and she writes with a kind of subdued but wicked humor that takes a moment to clamp down on you."--Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies "I think Jane Gardam is a genius and should be far more widely read. She has actually made me gasp, slap a book shut and say, 'She can't do that , ' open it up and realize that she can, she has, and it works."--Denise Mina, author of Conviction SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The New York Times Book Review The Washington Post The San Francisco Chronicle New York Magazine The Globe & Mail Slate "Will bring immense pleasure to readers who treasure fiction that is intelligent, witty, sophisticated and--a quality encountered all too rarely in contemporary culture--adult."-- The Washington Post "Gardam is an exquisite storyteller, picking up threads, laying them down, returning to them and giving them new meaning . . . Old Filth is sad, funny, beautiful and haunting."-- The Seattle Times "A masterpiece of storytelling."-- The Dallas Morning News " Jane Gardam is] the best contemporary British writer you probably haven't heard of."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR, First in the Old Filth trilogy. A New York Times Notable Book. "Old Filth belongs in the Dickensian pantheon of memorable characters" ( The New York Times Book Review ). 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 (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the English bar. Yet through it all he has carried with him the wounds of a difficult childhood. Now an eighty-year-old widower living in comfortable seclusion in Dorset, Feathers is finally free from the regimen of 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. Borrowing from biography and history, Jane Gardam has written an unforgettable novel reminiscent of Evan S. Connell's books Mr. Bridge and Mrs. Bridge, and Rudyard Kipling's Baa Baa, Black Sheep. Retracing much of the twentieth century's torrid and momentous history, Old Filth is the first installment of an immersive and atmospheric trilogy that, taken together, tells the moving story of a long, complicated marriage. " Old Filth is an extraordinary novel--the structure, the characters, the sweep of time."--Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House "I don't know why Gardam isn't universally celebrated and beloved. Her prose is dazzling, and she writes with a kind of subdued but wicked humor that takes a moment to clamp down on you."--Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies "I think Jane Gardam is a genius and should be far more widely read. She has actually made me gasp, slap a book shut and say, 'She can't do that!,' open it up and realize that she can, she has, and it works."--Denise Mina, author of Conviction SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The New York Times Book Review The Washington Post The San Francisco Chronicle New York Magazine The Globe & Mail Slate "Will bring immense pleasure to readers who treasure fiction that is intelligent, witty, sophisticated and--a quality encountered all too rarely in contemporary culture--adult."-- The Washington Post "Gardam is an exquisite storyteller, picking up threads, laying them down, returning to them and giving them new meaning . . . Old Filth is sad, funny, beautiful and haunting."-- The Seattle Times "A masterpiece of storytelling."-- The Dallas Morning News "[Jane Gardam is] the best contemporary British writer you probably haven't heard of."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR, "Jane Gardam's beautiful, vivid and defiantly funny novel is a must."____"The Times" "Gardam's superb new novel is surely her masterpiece . . . one of the most moving fictions I have read in years . . . This is the rare novel that drives its readers forward while persistently waylaying and detaining by the sheer beauty and inventiveness of it style."____"The Guardian" "The Whitbread winner scores again with a compelling novel based, in part, on the early life of Rudyard Kipling."____"Time Out" Sir Edward Feathers has progressed from struggling young barrister to wealthy expatriate lawyer to distinguished retired judge, living out his last days in comfortable seclusion in Dorset. The engrossing and moving account of his life, from birth in colonial Malaya, to Wales, where he is sent as a "Raj orphan," to Oxford, his career and marriage, parallels much of the 20th century's torrid and twisted history. "Old Filth" was nominated for the 2005 Orange Prize. Jane Gardam lives with her husband and three children in England. She has won Katherine Mansfield Award, the PEN Macmillan Silver Pen Award, the Whitbread Novel Award (twice), and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She was recently awarded the Heywood Hill Literary Prize in recognition of a distinguished literary career.
LC Classification NumberPR6057.A623O43 2006
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- Jun 27, 2016
Well worth Reading
I am amazed that I have not found Jane Gardam before this- but thanks heavens I have now. This is the 1st of 3 books on the same subject and I can't wait to read the other 2 and I shall search out anything else written by this author. Her descriptions of people and places are without parallel and once I began it I could not put this book down. A big YES YES from meVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Aug 08, 2016
Follow Old Filth
If you don't already know Jane Gardam's writing, Old Filth is a great introduction, and her best novel. You will read all her work and be waiting for her to do more.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Sep 20, 2021
Great book in great condition
Great because it was new!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
