
Old Filth
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Narrated by:
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Bill Wallace
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By:
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Jane Gardam
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 80-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 20th century's torrid and momentous history.
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Old Filth… for the ages. Spectacular.
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There are two books that flow this in the series, I hope to get a chance to read them.
Great philosophies on war, terrorism, the raising of children, the choices we make, guilt, love, and friendship. In short, a fantastic book of human nature and some sprinkling of Magical Realism.
A great classic
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Wonderful story and narration
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Surprisingly excellent read
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Engaging
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Superb In Every Way
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Didn’t want it to end.
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Masterful storytelling. Gardam is incredible!
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I adore this trilogy
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Literature at its finest!
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