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20%OFFIris Murdoch - A Severed Head/The Sea, The Sea - 9781841593708 - V9781841593708
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A Severed Head/The Sea, The Sea

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Description for A Severed Head/The Sea, The Sea Hardcover. Traces the turbulent emotional journey of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, a smug, well-to-do London wine merchant and unfaithful husband, whose life is turned inside out when his wife leaves him for her psychoanalyst. Num Pages: 680 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 212 x 39. Weight in Grams: 734.
First published in 1961, The Severed Head is regarded is one of Iris Murdoch's most entertaining works. A dark and ferocious comic masterpiece, the novel traces the turbulent emotional journey of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, a smug, well-to-do London wine merchant and unfaithful husband, whose life is turned inside out when his wife leaves him for her psychoanalyst. In The Sea, the Sea the landscape shifts to the seclusion of an isolated house on the edge of England's North Sea, where Charles Arrowby, a big name in London's glittering theatrical world, has retired to write ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
680
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841593708
SKU
V9781841593708
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About Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne's College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death ... Read more

Reviews for A Severed Head/The Sea, The Sea
A formidable combination of intellectual drive and storytelling exuberance
Harold Bloom Immensely readable ...Miss Murdoch is blessedly clever, without any of the aridity which, for some reason, that word is supposed to imply
Philip Toynbee (on A Severed Head)

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