Author: JANE GARDAM
Title: The man in the wooden hat
Description: Little, Brown, 2009. Paperback. Pp: 273. Another masterpiece from Jane Gardam and the second novel in the Old Filth trilogy.n Patrick Gale Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War. Reserved, immaculate and courteous, Filth finds it hard to demonstrate his emotions. But Elisabeth is different - a free spirit. She was brought up in the Japanese Internment Camps, which killed both her parents but left her with a lust for survival and an affinity with the Far East. No wonder she is attracted to Filth's hated rival at the Bar - the brash, forceful Veneering. Veneering has a Chinese wife and an adored son - and no difficulty whatsoever in demonstrating his emotions. How Elisabeth turns into Betty and whether she remains loyal to stolid Filth or is swept up by caddish Veneering, makes for a page-turning plot in a perfect novel which is full of surprises and revelations, as well as the humour and eccentricites for which Jane Gardam's writing is famous. ISBN: 9780349139487. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780349139487
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Title: The man in the wooden hat
Description: Little, Brown, 2009. Paperback. Pp: 273. Another masterpiece from Jane Gardam and the second novel in the Old Filth trilogy.n Patrick Gale Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War. Reserved, immaculate and courteous, Filth finds it hard to demonstrate his emotions. But Elisabeth is different - a free spirit. She was brought up in the Japanese Internment Camps, which killed both her parents but left her with a lust for survival and an affinity with the Far East. No wonder she is attracted to Filth's hated rival at the Bar - the brash, forceful Veneering. Veneering has a Chinese wife and an adored son - and no difficulty whatsoever in demonstrating his emotions. How Elisabeth turns into Betty and whether she remains loyal to stolid Filth or is swept up by caddish Veneering, makes for a page-turning plot in a perfect novel which is full of surprises and revelations, as well as the humour and eccentricites for which Jane Gardam's writing is famous. ISBN: 9780349139487. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780349139487
Price: EUR 7.50 = appr. US$ 8.15 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 1660388
- Book number: 1660388
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