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| Original Title: | Last Friends |
| ISBN: | 1609450930 (ISBN13: 9781609450939) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.europaeditions.com/book.php?Id=231 |
| Series: | Old Filth #3 |
| Literary Awards: | Rathbones Folio Prize Nominee (2014) |
Jane Gardam
Paperback | Pages: 205 pages Rating: 3.83 | 3271 Users | 520 Reviews
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| Title | : | Last Friends (Old Filth #3) |
| Author | : | Jane Gardam |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 205 pages |
| Published | : | April 2nd 2013 by Europa Editions (first published April 1st 2013) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. European Literature. British Literature. Novels |
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The third installment in the Old Filth trilogy, Last Friends will surprise and delight Gardam fans and appeal to new readers as it concludes a portrait of a marriage equal to any in the English language.Of Edward Feathers, a.k.a. Old Filth, the New York Times wrote, “he belongs in the Dickensian pantheon of memorable characters.” Filth, which stands for Failed in London Try Hong Kong, is a successful barrister who has spent most of his career practicing law in Southeast Asia. He met his wife, Betty, after she was released from an internment camp at the close of World War II. The first two books in this series—Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat— told the story of their life together first from Edward's perspective, and then from Betty's. Last Friends is Edward's longtime nemesis and Betty's sometime lover, Terry Veneering's turn and with its telling a magnificent and deeply moving story comes to its satisfying final pages.
As the Washington Post commented, these “absolutely wonderful” books give us “an astute, subtle depiction of marriage.” With this third revealing view of Betty and Edward's life together the depiction is completed as readers renew their connection to this remarkable, unforgettable couple.
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Ratings: 3.83 From 3271 Users | 520 ReviewsEvaluate About Books Last Friends (Old Filth #3)
Hmmm. I read the first one with you and Constant Reader years ago.The last of her magnificent trilogy, and the least, but still extraordinary and compulsively readable. I couldn't do much else while I was reading it and I didn't want it to end, not least because I can't bear saying goodbye to this company of characters. This is the funniest of the books because two of the protagonists, Dulcie and Fiscal-Smith, are her most Dickensian creations--hapless, ancient characters rather than the out-size heroic figures at the center of the first novels. It's also
What did I think? Did I think, what? I think I might have enjoyed this more if I had never read Old Filth. By itself Last Friends was a fun book - at least I found the first half fun and amusing, the whole book could well in fact be fun and amusing, it was probably that I ran out of my fun quota for the week by the time I got half way through, and so had exhausted my limited capacity to be amused. There was a fierce stab of poignancy somewhere around the middle of the book that caught me deep in
Damn. Trilogy finished. In the previous books, the character Veneering switched from between space to object space, background to foreground like a pitcher in a Braque drawing. This book tells his story and it is fascinating. Everything made sense all along but now it all makes even more sense. We get everybody's end game here too. Unsentimental, clear-eyed age all around. Watch it in your elders. Read about it. Then live it. There is no predicting. This was an excellent three books.
The third instalment in Jane Gardams Old Filth trilogy is a disappointment. It feels very much like the publisher or indeed the author herself is cashing in on her pervious success. Old Filth was a minor masterpiece, but this add-on, although it fills in some of the back story, particularly of Edward Feathers rival Terry Veneering, doesnt seem to have an emotional heart. It feels calculated, manufactured, and as a result fails to convince. Jane Gardam always writes well, but here her
With this last book in the Old Filth trilogy, we get the childhood and secrets of Terry Veneering, the third leg of the love triangle between Edward Feathers, his wife, Betty, and himself. Not as standout as the first two books, in my opinion, but still a satisfying conclusion to all the "friends" we met along the way. Jane Gardam is a treasure.
Jane Gardams brilliant novel, Old Filth, left so many plot twists and engaging characters hanging that there simply had to be more. Fans were happy when The Man in the Wooden Hat appeared, filling in more about the characters. The latest and presumably last installment, Last Friends, completes the trilogy with all the main characters finally dead.Gardam has fashioned an interesting cast and allowed them to wonder throughout the British Empire over most of the last century up to the present. Last
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