{"product_id":"the-man-in-the-wooden-hat","title":"The Man in the Wooden Hat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Man in the Wooden Hat \u003c\/em\u003eis funny and affecting...It's remarkable.\" The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSir 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e called Feathers one of the most memorable char-acters in modern literature. \u003cem\u003eOld Filth\u003c\/em\u003e was Edward's story. In \u003cem\u003eThe Man in the Wooden Hat\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Taken together [\u003cem\u003eOld Filth\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Man in the Wooden Hat\u003c\/em\u003e] are a British equivalent of Evan S. Connell's classics, \u003cem\u003eMr. Bridge and Mrs. Bridge\u003c\/em\u003e.\" Jonathan Yardley, \u003cem\u003e The Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The latest occasion to celebrate Gardam...A superb novel.\" Maureen Corrigan, \u003cem\u003eNational Public Radio\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Gardam's writing is like painting on glass: vivid and translucent.\" \u003cem\u003eIndependent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"On its own, \u003cem\u003eThe Man in the Wooden Hat\u003c\/em\u003e is funny and affecting, but read alongside \u003cem\u003eOld Filth\u003c\/em\u003e, it's remarkable.\" The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Old Filth\u003c\/em\u003e trilogy restores us to an era rich in spectacle and bristling with insinuation and intrigue. Vivid, spacious, superbly witty, and refreshingly brisk.\"\u003cem\u003e The Boston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Europa Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54347790745966,"sku":"9781933372891","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_44068db2-ac07-4829-8ee4-5b1565e31e52.jpg?v=1784336400","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/the-man-in-the-wooden-hat","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}