Jane Gardam

Last Friends (eBook, ePUB)

From the Orange Prize shortlisted author

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Gardam writes about love, death, loneliness, money and madness with gentle ferocity. The Old Filth trilogy should be read by anyone who has ever been interested in how we become who we are' Amanda Craig, Independent on Sunday

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

'This humorous, melancholic final volume establishes the trilogy as a modern classic' Kate Saunders, The Times

Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Old Filth QC, and his clever, misunderstood wife Betty. Last Friends, the final volume of this trilogy, picks up with Terence Veneering, Filth's great rival in work and -though it was never spoken of - in love.

Veneering, Filth and their friends tell a tale of love, friendship, grace, the bittersweet experiences of a now-forgotten Empire and the disappointments and consolations of age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748130184
• Artikelnr.: 39210444

Autorenporträt

Jane Gardam is the only writer to have been twice awarded the Whitbread/Costa Prize for Best Novel of the Year, for The Queen of the Tambourine and The Hollow Land. She also holds a Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature. She is the author of five volumes of acclaimed stories: Black Faces, White Faces (David Higham Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize); The Pangs of Love (Katherine Mansfield Prize); Going into a Dark House (Silver Pen Award from PEN); Missing the Midnight; and The People on Privilege Hill. Her novels include God on the Rocks, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Faith Fox; The Flight of the Maidens; the bestselling Old Filth, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2005; The Man in the Wooden Hat; and Last Friends. Jane Gardam was born in Yorkshire. She now lives in east Kent.

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Rezensionen

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