num_pages: 279
description: A comedy of quixotic manners, Under the Net focuses on a group of attractive Londoners of assorted idiosyncrasies whose life-lines tangle in a madcap search for truth. The search involves numerous off-beat escapades, including a nocturnal escape from a great hospital, the abduction of a famous acting dog, and a philosophic midnight swim in the Thames. Robust, ironic, and droll to the edge of burlesque, the novel tickles the fancy with its unexpected turns and compounds a wild comicality with wry human commentary.
language: English
title: Under the Net
titlecomplete: Under the Net
characters: Samuel Starfield (Sammy), Sadie Quentin, Hugo Belfounder, Lefty Todd, Dave Gelman, Peter O'Finney (Finn), James Donaghue (Jake), Magdalen Casement (Madge), Mrs Tinckham, Anna Quentin
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics, Novels, Irish Literature, Philosophy, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 14685
places: London, England, Paris
publisher: The Viking Press