Severed Head (Textbook Binding)
by:
Iris Murdoch (author)
Format: Textbook Binding
ISBN:
9780850467918 (0850467918)
Publish date: June 1st 1976
Publisher: John Curley & Assoc
Pages no: 360
Edition language: English
bookshelves: summer-2015, lit-richer, paper-read, play-dramatisation, radio-4, re-visit-2015, published-1961, satire, tongue-firmly-in-cheek, plate-of-worms, standalone, psychology, midlife-crisis, hippy-dippy-trippy-trash, games-people-play, decline-disintergration-degradation, author-love, amusin...
It twists and turns like a live thing! Really enjoyed it.
Oh, Iris, what have you done to me? How will I ever be able to read one of your books again? If I stop here and now it's only because of you! Remember my infatuation with Charles last summer? Of course you do, because every now and then I go back and compare male characters with him. Now, guess what...
This catalogues a disintegrating 60s marriage: Martin is happy with his wife Antonia and mistress Georgie. Antonia then leaves Martin to be with their friend and her psychoanalyst, Palmer, who has a sinister half-sister, Honor. It’s all creepily amicable, rational and analytical. Martin’s siblings, ...
I got hooked on Iris Murdoch for a year or so when I was around 20 and read more than half of her novels. But I did wonder where she got her ideas from. I mean, here she was, respectable married professor of philosophy and whatnot, and her plots are always this tangled mess of everyone sleeping with...
47 years ago
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