A Severed Head

MURDOCH,I

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Author
MURDOCH,I
Publish Date
01/01/1900
Book Type
paperback
Publisher Name
PENGUIN
Number of Pages
204
Edition
Reprint
ISBN-10
0140020039
ISBN-13
9780140020038
SKU
9780140020038

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.