A Severed Head
About this book
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'.
Subjects
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- classic literature
- fiction
- fiction in english
- friends and lovers
- interpersonal relations
- literature
- love
- man-woman relationships
- marriage
- relationships
- social life and customs