Old filth, Jane Gardam
Type
Label
Old filth, Jane Gardam
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Old filth
Oclc number
48085768644224
Responsibility statement
Jane Gardam
Summary
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
Creator
Genre
Subject
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1