# A Severed Head

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- Book: [A Severed Head](https://www.bookquiver.com/iris-murdoch/a-severed-head) ([A Severed Head.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/iris-murdoch/a-severed-head.md))
- Authors: [Iris Murdoch](https://www.bookquiver.com/iris-murdoch)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4002-003-8
- Pages: 208
- Published: 1976-11-18
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A novel about the frightfulness and ruthlessness of being in love, from the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea, The Sea Martin Lynch-Gibson believes he can possess both a beautiful wife...