I don’t know how to properly explain about this book. I KNOW I really, really liked it. Why? Well because it spoke to my heart about marital relationships. The problems everyone has, even if you love each other! You don’t have to be a person like either Betty or Eddie to still recognize yourself or ...
An unexpectedly excellent book that I bought because of the title and had come to dread reading. “Filth” stands for “failed in London try Hong Kong,” and the thumbnail story line is “Raj orphan British attorney who made a fortune in Hong Kong looks back at his life.” Sounds like such a yawn but it ...
Jane Gardam is again good for a psychological story of families and interpersonal relationships. God on the Rocks is set between word wars in an English village occupied by a group of extremely devout, daresay fringe, Christians. Margaret's father is one of their leaders, and the reader explores her...
Gave it a good try. Can't say I really liked or disliked it -- just not really sure about it overall. I checked it out from my sister's library system & it's time for it to be returned, so back it goes, partially unread. I probably won't pick it up again to finish it in the future, though.
I'm a big fan of Terri Windling, and make an effort to seek out her anthologies. Thus, I got this one. I'd heard rave reviews of it - people saying "This is the one that made a difference in my life!"I was a bit quizzical about that, because for me, that was 'Bordertown.' And for me, it remains Bord...
Some time ago, I read the 4 novels of the Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard about 2 upper middle-class families in Britain (mainly the London area) between 1937 and 1947. By contrast, this novel is set in Northern England during the summer of 1946 and is centered around 3 young women in...
Old Filth. "Failed in London, tried Hong Kong". He is an old man now, a former lawyer and then judge who personified England's colonialist outposts. His memories of his years as a 'Raj orphan', of his education and early career in England, and of those other lives that became intertwined with his,...
FILTH stands for "Failed in London, Try Hong Kong." The story of a successful British barrister from Hong Kong who has retired in his eighties and is living in a cottage in Dorset. The recent death of his wife has causes him to revisit his past memories of growing up and becoming the man he is now. ...
Like Proulx, Gardam's true genius is for the short story. Here she does a fine, if a little overrated job of capturing the character of eminent judge Filth.
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