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Gordon / Edith Templeton.
Van Pelt Library PR6070.E495 G67 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Templeton, Edith.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scots--England--Fiction.
- Scots.
- England.
- London (England)--Fiction.
- London (England).
- Sadomasochism--Fiction.
- Sadomasochism.
- Psychiatrists--Fiction.
- Psychiatrists.
- Young women--Fiction.
- Young women.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 226 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, 2001.
- Summary:
- The setting is post-World War II 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, and virtual enslavement to, 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 deep, unexpected pleasure of complete submission. As they go further and further into the depths -- both psychologically and sexually -- she begins, for the first time, to understand her troubled history and the serf that has emerged from it.
- Templeton's clean, precise style -- every nuance of place, motive, and dialogue exquisitely observed -- imbues Louisa's narrative voice with indelible power. Incomparably forthright and unsettling, Gordon is, finally, a galvanizing love story that no reader will forget.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Gordon / Louise Walbrook. London : The New English Library, 1966.
- ISBN:
- 0375421947
- OCLC:
- 49719352
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