Old Filth
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
$20.69
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
11 March 2014
Summary
‘It’s a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be true. Her diamond-like prose, her understanding of the human heart, her formal inventiveness and her sense of what it is to be alive - young, old, lonely, in love - never fades.’ - Amanda Craig
‘I love Jane Gardam, especially Old Filth.’ - Nina Stibbe
‘Her work, like Sylvia Townsend Warner’s, has that appealing combination of elegance, erudition and flinty wit.’ - Patrick Gale
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349139494 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349139490 |
| Author: | Jane Gardam |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 11 March 2014 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
A magnificent, deeply moving and compassionate portrait of an era and a sentimental education. Please read it - Daily Mail
Beautiful, vivid and defiantly funny - The Times
This novel is surely Gardam’s masterpiece. On the human level, it is one of the most moving fictions I have read for years … This is the rare novel that drives its reader forward while persistently waylaying and detaining by the sheer beauty and inventiveness of its style. One must savour every phrase. The marriage of quirky eccentricity and psychological authenticity is a Gardam technique, but here her cunning wit, moving deftly between scenes and eras, displays the tragedy of a vintage world forever passing away - Guardian
What a spiky brilliant sledgehammer of a novel is Jane Gardam’s Old Filth - Patrick Ness
She does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, praise for The Stories
I recommend it wholeheartedly for its economy, breadth of narrative, and its insight, humour and pathos - Mail on Sunday
About The Author
Jane Gardam
Jane Gardam has been awarded the Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime’s contribution to the enjoyment of literature; has twice won a Whitbread Award and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She was awarded an OBE in January 2009.
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