Gordon

Templeton, Edith

ISBN 10: 0670913901 / ISBN 13: 9780670913909

Published by Viking, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gordon
• Publisher: Viking
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670913901
• ISBN 13: 9780670913909
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 420 grams

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Synopsis

An underground classic of the 1960s - an extraordinary novel of psycho-sexual entanglement.
Post-war London. Louisa, a smartly dressed young woman in the midst of a divorce, meets a charismatic man in a pub, and within an hour has been sexually conquered by him on a garden bench. Thus begins her baffling but magnetic love affair with Richard Gordon.
Gordon, a psychiatrist, keeps Louisa in his thrall with his almost omniscient ability to see through her, and she is equally gripped by the unexpected pleasure of complete submission, as they sink further and further into the depths - both psychologically and sexually.
Templeton's prose exquisitely captures one of the most unusual and disturbing love stories ever written.

About the Author

Edith Templeton was born in Prague in 1916 and spent much of her childhood in a castle in the Bohemian countryside. She was educated at a French lycée in Prague and left that city in 1938 to marry an Englishman. During her years in Britain, she worked in the Office of the Chief Surgeon for the United States Army in Cheltenham and then became a captain in the British Army, working as a high-level conference interpreter. Her short stories began to appear in The New Yorker in the fifties, and over the next several decades she published a number of novels, as well as a popular travel book, The Surprise of Cremona, in the United Kingdom.

Mrs. Templeton left England in 1956 to live in India with her second husband, a noted cardiologist and the physician to the King of Nepal. She has since lived in various parts of Europe, and now makes her home in Bordighera, on the coast of Italy.