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100 1 _aMurdoch, Iris
245 1 2 _aA severed head,
_b: a novel
_c/ Iris Murdoch
260 _aNew York,
_b: Penguin Books
_c, 1976, c1961.
300 _a204 p.
_c; 19 cm.
520 _aMartin Lynch-Gibbon 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 re-education. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendour at first repels him and later arouses a consuming and monstrous passion. As his Medua informs him, 'this is nothing to do with happiness'.
650 _aMan-woman relationships
_v--Fiction
942 _cMO
999 _c235817
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