A Severed Head

Name: A Severed Head
Author: Iris Murdoch

by Iris Murdoch

Novel about two couples whose intimate relationships become catastrophically entangled

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Iris Murdoch

Anglo-Irish philosopher and novelist whose dense, morally serious fiction explored the nature of good and evil, love, and freedom. She wrote twenty-six novels, including The Sea, The Sea, which won the Booker Prize. She is one of the most significant British novelists of the postwar era.

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