Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 24/01/2002
ISBN: 9780099429074
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm
Weight: 245g
RRP: £9.99
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.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 24/01/2002
ISBN: 9780099429074
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm
Weight: 245g
RRP: £9.99
Under the Net announces the emergence of a brilliant talent
Of all the novelists that have made their bow since the war she seems to me to be the most remarkable-behind her books one feels a power of intellect quite exceptional in a novelist
A dazzling story, light and comic in touch
Iris Murdoch has imposed her alternative world on us as surely as Christopher Columbus or Graham Greene
This is a comedy with that touch of ferocity about it which makes for excitement