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Under the Net

Under the Net

Author(s): Iris Murdoch

Location(s): London

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1950s

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Jake is mid 30s, a specialist translator of French to English. He relies on his social group for upkeep a lot of the time, the romantic’s life of poverty. Life always seems to work out in the end and he never ends up really impecunious. A feel good book with thoughtful prose.

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`A brilliant book about language and its inability to express certain things’ (The Daily Express)

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