Under The Net
by Iris Murdoch | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0140014454 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0140014454 Global Overview for this book
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Avon Book 1967
256 pages
Product Description
Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends. A meeting with Anna, an old flame, leads him into a series of fantastic adventures. Jake is captivated by a majestic philosopher, Hugo Belfounder, whose profound and inconclusive reflections give the book its title - under the net of language.
From the Back Cover
"A brilliant talent"
- London Times Literary Supplement
"Here for once is a novel written for the fun of it, but the fun is that of a witty and poetic intelligence."
- New York Herald Tribune
"Delightful"
- Chicago Sun-Times
"Unusually good"
- Saturday Review
256 pages
Product Description
Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends. A meeting with Anna, an old flame, leads him into a series of fantastic adventures. Jake is captivated by a majestic philosopher, Hugo Belfounder, whose profound and inconclusive reflections give the book its title - under the net of language.
From the Back Cover
"A brilliant talent"
- London Times Literary Supplement
"Here for once is a novel written for the fun of it, but the fun is that of a witty and poetic intelligence."
- New York Herald Tribune
"Delightful"
- Chicago Sun-Times
"Unusually good"
- Saturday Review
Moving the book to my bookshelf together with the other books by Iris Murdoch.
