Under the Net - Brossura

Murdoch, Iris

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099458446 ISBN 13: 9780099458449

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2003

Riassunto

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 off his friends. A meeting with Anna, and 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. Robust, full of flavour and panache, here is a rare novel that makes one laugh and think in equal measure.

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Recensione:

“Iris Murdoch has imposed her alternative world on us as surely as Christopher Columbus or Graham Greene.” -- Sunday Times

L'autore:

Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919 of Anglo-Irish parents, grew up in London and was educated at Oxford and Cambridge. She is the author of 26 novels and several works of philosophy. She died in 1999.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0099458446
• ISBN 13: 9780099458449
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 528