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An edition of Une'Tete Coupee (1961)

A severed head

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  • ★★★★ 4.20 ·
  • 5 Ratings
  • 14 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 6 Have read

Martin Lynch-Gibbon 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. As his Medusa informs him, 'this is nothing to do with happiness'.

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Publisher
Chatto & Windus, Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)
Language
English
Pages
251

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Subjects
Man-woman relationships, Fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Classic Literature, Literature, relationships, love, marriage, friends and lovers, Fiction in English
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London, Cambridge, Japan, United States, New York

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A severed head
1978, Chatto & Windus, Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)
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A severed head
1978, Triad
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A severed head
1966, Avon Books
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A severed head.
1961, Penguin Books in association with Chatto & Windus
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A severed head: a novel.
1961, Viking Press
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1961, Chatto & Windus
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Pagination
251 p. ;c21 cm.
Number of pages
251

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL21901377M
ISBN 10
0701109807
OCLC/WorldCat
11987217
Library Thing
5200
Goodreads
1420031

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'You're sure she doesn't know,' said Georgie.
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first sentence

Violence, except on the screen, is always pathetic, ludicrous, and beastly.
Page 145, added by lalala.

Stood out to me

I am a severed head such as primitive tribes and old alchemists used to use, anointing it with oil and putting a morsel of gold upon its tongue to make it utter prophecies. And who knows but that long acquaintance with a severed head might not lead to strange knowledge.
Page 182, added by lalala.

First mention of severed head as in the title

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