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The Man in the Wooden Hat
Jane Gardam
Europa Editions
November 2009
On Sale: October 27, 2009
240 pages
ISBN: 1933372893
EAN: 9781933372891
Hardcover
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The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the
most memorable characters in modern literature. A lyrical
novel that recalls his fully lived life, Old Filth has been
acclaimed as Jane Gardam's masterpiece, a book where life
and art merge. And now that beautiful, haunting novel has
been joined by a companion that also bursts with humor and
wisdom: The Man in the Wooden Hat. Old Filth was Eddie's story. The Man in the Wooden Hat is
the history of his marriage told from the perspective of
his wife, Betty, a character as vivid and enchanting as
Filth himself. They met in Hong Kong after the war. Betty had spent the
duration in a Japanese internment camp. Filth was already a
successful barrister, handsome, fast becoming rich, in need
of a wife but unaccustomed to romance. A perfect English
couple of the late 1940s. As a portrait of a marriage, with all the bittersweet
secrets and surprising fulfillment of the 50-year union of
two remarkable people, the novel is a triumph. The Man in
the Wooden Hat is fiction of a very high order from a great
novelist working at the pinnacle of her considerable power.
It will be read and loved and recommended by all the many
thousands of readers who found its predecessor, Old Filth,
so compelling and so thoroughly satisfying.
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