{"product_id":"old-filth-old-filth-trilogy-book-1-9781933372136","title":"Old Filth: Old Filth Trilogy Book 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst in the Old Filth trilogy. A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book. \"Old Filth belongs in the Dickensian pantheon of memorable characters\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSir 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.\u003cp\u003eBorrowing from biography and history, Jane Gardam has written an unforgettable novel reminiscent of Evan S. Connell's books \u003cem\u003eMr. Bridge\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMrs. Bridge\u003c\/em\u003e, and Rudyard Kipling's \u003cem\u003eBaa Baa, Black Sheep\u003c\/em\u003e. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOld Filth\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary novel--the structure, the characters, the sweep of time.\"--Ann Patchett, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Dutch House\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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 \u003cem\u003eFates and Furies\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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 \u003cem\u003eConviction\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003eThe San Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003eNew York Magazine\u003cbr\u003eThe Globe \u0026amp; Mail\u003cbr\u003eSlate\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Gardam is an exquisite storyteller, picking up threads, laying them down, returning to them and giving them new meaning . . . \u003ci\u003eOld Filth\u003c\/i\u003e is sad, funny, beautiful and haunting.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A masterpiece of storytelling.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Dallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" Jane Gardam is] the best contemporary British writer you probably haven't heard of.\"--Maureen Corrigan, NPR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-2106984\"\u003eJane Gardam\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Europa Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.30w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781933372136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1933372133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC045010\"\u003eFamily Life | Marriage \u0026amp; Divorce\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC014000\"\u003eHistorical | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane Gardam has been twice awarded the Whitbread Prize and was also a Booker prize finalist. She is winner of the David Higham Prize, the Royal Society for Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize, the Katherine Mansfield Prize, and the Silver Pen Award from PEN. Her novels include \u003ci\u003eGod on the Rocks\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the Booker Prize; \u003ci\u003eOld Filth\u003c\/i\u003e, finalist for the Orange Prize; \u003ci\u003eThe Man in the Wooden Hat\u003c\/i\u003e, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and \u003ci\u003eLast Friends\u003c\/i\u003e, finalist for the Folio Award. She lives in the south of England near the sea. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1999 Jane Gardam was awarded the Heywood Hill Literary Prize in recognition of a distinguished literary career.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Europa Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42707859603693,"sku":"9781933372136","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_56d13ee4-4199-4312-bea7-8da5f3fd2df4.jpg?v=1650079940","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/old-filth-old-filth-trilogy-book-1-9781933372136","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}