A Severed Head, (Paperback)

from lauralkeet

It was later that the pain came, a pain unutterably obscure and confused like that induced by some deprivation in childhood. The familiar world of ways and objects within which I had lived for so l...

from tzelman

Funny--everyone likes everyone else but noone really likes Martin Lynch-Gibbon, wine merchant and urbane lecher. Reread this recently and it mostly held up.

from Crazymamie

A Severed Head was written in 1961 and it is a farce - a satire set in "keep a stiff upper lip" England during the sexual revolution. When Martin Lynch-Gibbons is calmly told by his wife, Antonia, ...

from jeffome

Rather interesting romp of sorts revolving around some seemingly pathetic souls that seem to have no clue how to be genuine in their interpersonal relationships.....lots of bouncing back and forth ...

from nocto

I loved Iris Murdoch when I first read her, twenty years ago when I was about twenty years old. I loved all the clever characters and their academic musings on life, and everything (not so much the...