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The sea, the sea ; A severed head / Iris Murdoch with an introduction by Sarah Churchwell.

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Record Number 845969
ISBN 9781841593708 (hardback)
Author Murdoch, Iris author.
Title The sea, the sea ; A severed head / Iris Murdoch with an introduction by Sarah Churchwell.
Publisher/Date New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
©1978
Pagination etc. 650 pages ; 21 cm.
Series Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) 370
Contents note A severed head first published: [London] : Chatto & Windus, 1961. The sea, the sea first published: [London] : Chatto & Windus, 1978.
Summary Note 'The sea, the sea' - Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into a riveting chronicle of the strange events and unexpected visitors -- some real, some spectral -- that disrupt his world and shake his oversized ego to its very core. 'A severed head' - A dark and ferocious comic masterpiece, the story 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.
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Middle-aged men -- Fiction
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
Adultery -- Fiction
Psychological fiction.
Added Author Murdoch, Iris Severed head
Murdoch, Iris Sea, the sea
Churchwell, Sarah Bartlett, 1970- writer of introduction.
Shelf Location F MURD
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