A severed head : a novel
Iris Murdoch (Author), Gerald Peary (Donor), Gerald Peary Collection (College of Staten Island Library)
Martin 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 ..
Print Book, English, 1961
Viking Press, New York, 1961