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DU Book Club Discusses A Severed Head

Dominican University’s Book Club will meet on Thursday, February 19 to discuss Iris Murdoch’s novel, A Severed Head. The book club meets at 7:00 p.m. in Room 002 of the Rebecca Crown Library on the main campus, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.

A Severed Head features the character Martin Lynch-Gibbon, a man who believes that it is possible to have a gorgeous wife and a charming lover at the same time. Martin is forced to reexamine his life when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst. While the plotline’s main focus is a marriage in crisis, plenty of twists and surprises abound to keep the reader fascinated.

A Severed Head was published in 1961 and soon was adapted into a play and later a movie, starring Lee Remick, Richard Attenborough and Ian Holm.

Murdoch was a philosopher and teacher, besides being an author of many significant works of the 21st century such as, The Bell and The Black Prince. Murdoch’s life was portrayed in the 2001 movie, Iris.

For more information about Dominican University’s Book Club, contact Mary Pat Fallon at (708) 524-6870 or at mpfallon@dom.edu.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 15 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Graduate School of Business and Information Systems, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the Institute for Adult Learning. In the 2004 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “best value” for the sixth consecutive year.