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Publisher: Penguin Books
Author: Iris Murdoch
ISBN: 9780140014457
Fiction, Classics
Under the Net
by
Iris Murdoch
Under the Net by
Iris Murdoch
Reviews
"Murdoch, a philosophy don at Oxford, was that rarity, a philosophical novelist who could create real characters, not premises with names attached... Right out of the gate she displayed all her sinuous gifts: her questing mind, her comic skepticism, her wildly entangled plots."
Time, "All-Time 100 Novels"
Summary
Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actress sister, Sadie. He resumes acquaintance with the formidable Hugo, whose ‘philosophy’ he once presumptuously dared to interpret. These meetings involve Jake and his eccentric servant-companion, Finn, in a series of adventures that include the kidnapping of a film-star dog and a political riot on a film set of ancient Rome. Jake, fascinated, longs to learn Hugo’s secret. Perhaps Hugo’s secret is Hugo himself? Admonished, enlightened, Jake hopes at last to become a real writer.