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Title: A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch ISBN: 0-14-002003-9 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1976 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.31 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Tops
Comment: As an Iris Murdoch "junkie", I relish all of her works, and I'm still in the process of completing the list. My personal favorites have to be A Severed Head, The Sea, The Sea, Bruno's Dream and The Green Knight, so far. A Severed Head is particularly enjoyable because its plot is fast-moving and doesn't get sidetracked with lengthy philosophical or religious theory that is inherent in so many of her books. While I do enjoy examining these topics, it's also great just to get engrossed in a good story without having to think existentially, if you know what I mean. She has incredible talent as a novelist in developing characters, describing setting, developing plot and building suspense. She uses these gifts, combined with her great sense of humor, to bring her stories to an unanticipated climax, with an even more unexpected, and often happy, ending. She treats her readers as intellectual equals, which is a nice compliment, although I know I've come up short a few times -- particularly when one of her characters spouts off a phrase in a foreign language. It's the price you pay for good art, and I wouldn't change a thing. This book is a great jumping off point for new Iris Murdoch readers, who can then graduate to her lengthier, (and more philosophical) works later. Not many people can write like Iris Murdoch, and she is missed by many. Luckily, she left her legacy in her writings that we can all enjoy for many, many years to come.
Rating: 4
Summary: Iris Murdoch is a literary genius
Comment: Iris Murdoch, writer of over 25 plays, short stories, essays, and novels, writes about the relationships of Martin Lynch-Gibbons and his wife Antonia. The plot thinckens as Palmer Anderson and Honor Klein enter the scene... A satire on relationships. Truly a great book to read on a rainy night.
Rating: 4
Summary: Illuminating
Comment: An all-too-horribly-true account of triangular/quadrangular relationships. Maybe because their lives run too smoothly, the characters are tempted to throw themselves into dramatic situations where they can see themselves and each other feeling the big emotions and saying the great tragic lines. Except they are all so bloody civilised they insist on "talking things through". Marriage is shown to be nothing more than a stage set carefully dressed with the right kind of antiques.
These people are not "English aristocrats" - most of them are English upper-middle-class. It's quite clear that the Lynch-Gibbons have made their money in trade (the wine trade) and are only second-generation country-house owners. The invading hordes or possibly avenging demons (Palmer and Honor) are American.
Required reading for anyone caught up in a love triangle whose participants are all seeing different shrinks.
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Title: The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch ISBN: 014002476X Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: January, 1987 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch, Mary Kinzie ISBN: 014118616X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Iris Murdoch, A. S. Byatt ISBN: 0141186690 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 27 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (Penguin Books) by Iris Murdoch ISBN: 0140041117 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: March, 1984 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch, Peter J. Reed ISBN: 0141186178 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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