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The Man in the Wooden Hat
Paperback
Series: Old Filth Trilogy, Book 2
General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $16.00
ISBN13: 9781933372891
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: Oct 27 2009
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Awards: L.A. Times Book Prize
The Man in the Wooden Hat is funny and affecting...It's remarkable. The New York Times Book Review
Sir Edward Feathers and Betty meet in Hong Kong after the Second World War. Betty has spent the war in a Japanese internment camp; Feathers, a Raj orphan, is a successful barrister known by the moniker Filth-Failed in London Try Hong Kong-who is in want of an English wife but lacking in romantic aptitude.
The New York Times called Feathers one of the most memorable char-acters in modern literature. Old Filth was Edward's story. In The Man in the Wooden Hat, the story of his marriage is told from the point of view of Betty, a character as vivid and enchanting as Filth himself. In this second book of remarkable trilogy, an intriguing backstory becomes a full-blooded novel that rivals its beloved predecessor and gives as fine a portrait of a decades-long marriage as any written in English.
Taken together [Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat] are a British equivalent of Evan S. Connell's classics, Mr. Bridge and Mrs. Bridge. Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
The latest occasion to celebrate Gardam...A superb novel. Maureen Corrigan, National Public Radio
Gardam's writing is like painting on glass: vivid and translucent. Independent
On its own, The Man in the Wooden Hat is funny and affecting, but read alongside Old Filth, it's remarkable. The New York Times
The Old Filth trilogy restores us to an era rich in spectacle and bristling with insinuation and intrigue. Vivid, spacious, superbly witty, and refreshingly brisk. The Boston Globe
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