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Item Details
Title:
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THE SEVERED HEAD
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By: |
Iris Murdoch |
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Paperback |
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£6.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0140020039 |
ISBN 13: |
9780140020038 |
Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
Pub. date: |
18 November, 1976 |
Pages: |
208 |
Description: |
Comic complications ensue when an intruder unleashes the primitive passions long subdued by London intellectuals who play at the conventions of love set by a society devoid of emotion. |
Synopsis: |
A novel about the frightfulness and ruthlessness of being in love 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. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Penguin Books Ltd |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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