Last friends

Belletristik

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Verfasser:
Gardam, Jane

Verfasser Angabe:
Jane Gardam

Sprache:
Englisch

• Englisch
• Freundschaft
• Jurist
• Rivalität
• Belletristische Darstellung
• British Empire

Verlag:
Abacus Book

Erscheinungsort:
London

Jahr:
2014

Umfang:
241 S.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
978-0-349-00016-9

Bandangabe:
3

Inhalt:
Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Old Filth QC, and his clever, misunderstood wife Betty. Last Friends, the final volume of this trilogy, picks up with Terence Veneering, Filth's great rival in work and - though it was never spoken of - in love.

Veneering's were not the usual beginnings of an establishment silk: the son of a Russian acrobat marooned in northeast England and a devoted local girl, he escapes the war to emerge in the Far East as a man of panache, success and fame. But, always, at the stuffy English Bar he is treated with suspicion: where did this blond, louche, brilliant Slav come from?

Veneering, Filth and their friends tell a tale of love, friendship, grace, the bittersweet experiences of a now-forgotten Empire and the disappointments and consolations of age.