num_pages: 252
description: Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Belfounder, silent philosopher.Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actress sister, Sadie. He resumes acquaintance with formidable Hugo, whose ‘philosophy’ he once presumptuously dared to interpret. These meetings involve Jake and his eccentric servant-companion, Finn, in a series of adventures that include the kidnapping of a film-star dog, and a political riot in a film-set of ancient Rome. Jake, fascinated, longs to learn Hugo’s secret. Perhaps Hugo’s secret is Hugo himself? Admonished, enlightened, Jake hopes at last to become a real writer.
language: English
title: Under the Net
titlecomplete: Under the Net
characters: James Donaghue (Jake), Magdalen Casement (Madge), Peter O'Finney (Finn), Mrs Tinckham, Anna Quentin, Hugo Belfounder, Lefty Todd, Samuel Starfield (Sammy), Sadie Quentin, Dave Gelman
genres: 20th Century, Philosophy, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Irish Literature, Fiction, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 14685
places: Paris, London, England
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd