| A Severed Head Contributor(s): Murdoch, Iris (Author) |
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ISBN: 0140020039 ISBN-13: 9780140020038 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1976 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.07" W x 7.76" (0.36 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A novel about the frightfulness and ruthlessness of being in love, from the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea, The Sea Martin Lynch-Gibson believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional reeducation. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendor at first repels him and later arouses a consuming and monstrous passion. As his Medusa informs him, "this is nothing to do with happiness." A Severed Head was adapted for a successful stage production in 1963 and was later made into a film starring Claire Bloom, Lee Remick, Richard Attenborough, and Ian Holm. |