Jane Gardam
The Man in the Wooden Hat
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Second in the Old Filth trilogy. An astute, subtle depiction of marriage... absolutely wonderful (The Washington Post).Acclaimed as Jane Gardam's masterpiece, Old Filth is a lyrical novel that recalls the fully lived life of Sir Edward Feathers. The Man in the Wooden Hat is the history of his marriage told from the perspective of his wife, Betty, a character as vivid and enchanting as Filth himself.They met in Hong Kong after the war. Betty had spent the duration in a Japanese internment camp. Filth was already a successful barrister, handsome, fast becoming rich, in need of a wife but unaccustomed to romance. A perfect English couple of the…
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Second in the Old Filth trilogy. An astute, subtle depiction of marriage... absolutely wonderful (The Washington Post).Acclaimed as Jane Gardam's masterpiece, Old Filth is a lyrical novel that recalls the fully lived life of Sir Edward Feathers. The Man in the Wooden Hat is the history of his marriage told from the perspective of his wife, Betty, a character as vivid and enchanting as Filth himself.They met in Hong Kong after the war. Betty had spent the duration in a Japanese internment camp. Filth was already a successful barrister, handsome, fast becoming rich, in need of a wife but unaccustomed to romance. A perfect English couple of the late 1940s.As a portrait of a marriage, with all the bittersweet secrets and surprising fulfillment of the fifty-year union of two remarkable people, The Man in the Wooden Hat is a triumph. Fiction of a very high order from a great novelist working at the pinnacle of her considerable power, it will be read and loved and recommended by all the many thousands of readers who found its predecessor, Old Filth, so compelling and thoroughly satisfying.Funny and affecting... It's remarkable. -The New York Times Book ReviewThe latest occasion to celebrate Gardam... [a] superb novel. -Maureen Corrigan, NPRTold with quintessentially British humor... Gardam's prose is witty and precise. -Publishers Weekly (starred review)It's magnificent.... Funny, intelligent and immensely moving. -Kirkus Reviews
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-60945-033-5
- EAN: 9781609450335
- Produktnummer: 32778969
- Verlag: Europa Editions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 233 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Reihenbandnummer: 2
Über den Autor
Jane Gardam has twice won the Whitbread Award, for The Hollow Land, and Queen of the Tambourine. She is also the author of God on the Rocks, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and most recently, Faith Fox.
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