A Severed Head - Couverture souple

Murdoch, Iris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0573015279 ISBN 13 : 9780573015274

Editeur : Samuel French Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

JB Priestley's adaptation of Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head.4 women, 3 men

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne’s College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1987 and in the 1997 PEN Awards received the Gold Pen for Distinguished Service to Literature.

Iris Murdoch made her writing debut in 1954 with Under the Net. Her twenty-six novels include the Booker prize-winning The Sea, The Sea (1978), the James Tait Black Memorial prize-winning The Black Prince (1973) and the Whitbread prize-winning The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974). Her philosophy includes Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953) and Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1992); other philosophical writings, including The Sovereignty of Good (1970), are collected in Existentialists and Mystics (1997).

Quatrième de couverture

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MIRANDA SEYMOUR

'This is a comedy with that touch of ferocity about it which makes for excitement' Elizabeth Jane Howard

Martin 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. How will he survive it?
See also: The Bell

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Samuel French Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0573015279
• ISBN 13: 9780573015274
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 78
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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