Under the Net (Broché)

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Author: Iris Murdoch
ISBN: 9780099429074

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Iris Murdoch

Arrow Books
Paru le : 01/01/2002

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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, 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 ride - 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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Date de parution : 01/01/2002
Editeur : Arrow Books
ISBN : 0-09-942907-1
EAN : 9780099429074
Présentation : Broché
Nb. de pages : 286 pages
Poids : 0.22 Kg
Dimensions : 13,0 cm × 19,6 cm × 2,0 cm

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Biographie d'Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919 of Anglo-Irish parents. She went to Badminton School, Bristol, and read classics at Somerville College, Oxford. During the war she was an Assistant Principal at the Treasury, and then worked with UNRRA in London, Belgium and Austria. She held a studentship in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge, and then in 1948 she returned to Oxford where she became a Fellow of St Anne's College. Until her death in February 1999, she lived with her husband, the teacher and critic John Bayley, in Oxford. Awarded the CBE in 1976, Iris Murdoch was made a DBE in the 1987 New Year's Honours List. In the 1997 PEN Awards she received the Gold Pen for Distinguished Service to Literature.