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Product Description Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookles, and film stariets 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. However, a meeting with Anna, an old flame, leads him into a series of fantastic adventures. From AudioFile In Iris Murdoch's 1954 debut novel, Jake Donaghue is an engaging young writer. In his overintellectualized angst, Jake details a convoluted romantic impossibility--he loves Anna, who loves Hugo, who loves Sadie, who loves Jake. His betrayal of his best friend's trust, his emotional indifference in most of his relationships, and his failed first book eventually leave Jake in existential hell. Samuel West's performance is nicely understated. His intelligent reading turns Jake and Hugo's somber discussions of philosophy and metaphysics into exercises in wit. Jake offers that everything "is made up of moments, which pass and become nothing." West delivers Jake's discoveries, not as grim, but as the ramblings of a young artist in search of himself. Murdoch fans
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Murdoch, Iris
- Publisher
- Great Britain : Penguin Books
- Published
- 1954
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781101495803
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.76 / 5 (9,700 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- ağ (1993)
- Under the Net, a Novel (2002)
- Under the Net : a comic novel about work and love, wealth and fame (2010)
- Under the Net : a comic novel about work and love, wealth and fame (2021)
- Pod Setʹiu : Roman (2001)
- Ağ (1954)
- Under the Net (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series) (2008)
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- Under the Net, a Novel (1982)
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- Under the Net (Vintage Classics) (2002)
- Under the Net : a Novel (1990)
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