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Old Filth
Jane Gardam
Europa Editions
ISBN: 1-933372-13-6
Pub. date: June 15 2006
Price: $14.95


 
August 16 2010 - A Work in Progress: "Gardam has created such an interesting character and placed him against the backdrop of the better part of the twentieth century."

June 24 2009 - Booklist: "Gardam is funny, cutting, a keen observer, and so well-attuned to her characters."

October 04 2007 - Boston Globe: "a novel that is both funny and moving. By book's end the title has achieved an ineffable poignancy and one feels that it could not possibly have been anything else."

July 31 2007 - Pajamas Media: "This is a novel that can feel astonishingly alive. It has sweep and yet feels intimate - no mean trick. The story is full of incident and character, including a good deal of English drinking."

September 26 2006 - The Grand Rapids Press: "Read the very British novel by Jane Gardam. You will find a character that defies stereotyping."

September 12 2006 - New York Times: "Gardam's novel is an anthology of such bittersweet scenes, rendered by a novelist at the very top of her form."

July 10 2006 - Seattle Times: "Gardam is an exquisite storyteller, picking up threads, laying them down, returning to them and giving them new meaning [...] "Old Filth" is sad, funny, beautiful and haunting."

July 04 2006 - Washington Post: "'Old Filth' [...] 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."

July 03 2006 - Entertainment Weekly: "In assured, bone-hard prose, Gardam draws lines between Filth's all-but-orphaned youth, the traumas he suffered during and after the Blitz, and his bewildering new life as a widower in the modern English countryside."

June 28 2006 - New Yorker: "This mordantly funny novel examines the life of Sir Edward Feathers, a desiccated barrister known to colleagues and friends as Old Filth (the nickname stands for 'Failed in London Try Hong Kong')."

June 13 2006 - Philadelphia Inquirer: "A broad and colorful and complete tale, with a poignant heart."

May 30 2006 - Booklist (starred review): "Anglophile readers wondering who their next favorite British writer will be need to look no further than Gardam."

May 29 2006 - Dalls Morning News: "Readers of Jane Gardam's novel, Old Filth, will no doubt find it a masterpiece in storytelling."

April 19 2006 - Kirkus Reviews (starred review): "The marvelously versatile Gardam dips into British imperial history for her extraordinary portrait of a Raj orphan. "

April 17 2006 - Library Journal: "Both witty and poignant, this work is more than a character study; through her protagonist, Gardam offers a view of the last days of empire as seen from post-9/11 Britain."