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Old Filth (50th Anniversary Edition) Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction

Name: Old Filth (50th Anniversary Edition)
Author: Jane Gardam

Auteur: Jane Gardam

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Jane Gardam

Engels
Paperback
9780349145266
09 februari 2023
288 pagina's

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Jane Gardam

"Jane Mary Gardam, OBE FRSL (born 11 July 1928) 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. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.

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This funny and wise masterpiece is being reissued as one of five titles celebrating Abacus's 50th anniversary, with a new introduction from Nina Stibbe

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction

FILTH, in his heyday, was an international lawyer with a practice in the Far East. Now, only the oldest QCs can remember that his nickname stood for Failed In London Try Hong Kong.

Long ago, Old Filth was a Raj orphan - one of the many young children sent 'Home' from the East to be fostered and educated in England. Jane Gardam's novel tells his story, from his birth in what was then Malaya to the extremities of his old age. In doing so, she not only encapsulates a whole period from the glory days of the 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.

'Beautiful, vivid, defiantly funny' The Times

'This novel is surely Gardam's masterpiece... On the human level, it is one of the most moving fictions I have read in years' Guardian

'Sharp, humane, generous and wonderfully funny, she is one of our very finest writers' Hilary Mantel

'Old Filth has stayed with me for years... I can't think of anyone who achieves so much with so few words' Sathnam Sanghera

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 09 februari 2023
Aantal pagina's: 288

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Hoofdauteur: Jane Gardam
Hoofduitgeverij: Abacus

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Product breedte: 126 mm
Product hoogte: 22 mm
Product lengte: 196 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 127 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 23 mm
Verpakking lengte: 192 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 466 g

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EAN: 9780349145266

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