Gordon

Title:

Gordon

Author:

Templeton, Edith.

ISBN:

9780241964644

Personal Author:

Templeton, Edith.

Physical Description:

226 pages.

Abstract:

Gordon, a psychiatrist, keeps Louisa in his thrall with his almost omniscient ability to see through her and she, in turn, is gripped by the deep, unexpected pleasure of complete submission. As they venture further and further into the depths -- both psychological and sexual -- she begins, for the first time, to understand her troubled history and the self that has emerged from it. In her clean, precise style, with every social nuance and motive exquisitely observed, Templeton delivers a tightly wound drama, unsparingly forthright in its description of how this form of love can bring incomparable rapture. Louisa's unsettling story has more than the ring of truth to it: it is told with urgency and relish, and its outcome, which leaves Louisa enlightened and changed forever, is profoundly satisfying.

Genre:

Psychological fiction.

Format:

Books

Document ID:

SD_ILS:1365422

Availability:

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Summary

An extraordinary novel of psycho-sexual entanglement - banned for indecency in England in 1966.

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. Subjecting herself to repeated humiliations at his hands, but quite unable and unwilling to free herself from his control, Louisa and Gordon 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.

Author Notes

Edith Templeton was born in Prague in 1916 & spent much of her childhood in a castle in the Bohemian countryside. In 1938, she left Prague to marry an Englishman & Began living in Britain. During the war, she worked in the Office of the Chief Surgeon for the U.S. Army in Cheltenham & then became a Captain in the British Army. Her short stories began to appear in The New Yorker in the fifties & over the next several decades she published a number of novels, as well as a popular travel book. Under a pseudonym, she also wrote a novel which was banned for indecency in Germany & England. With her second husband, a celebrated cardiologist, she left England to live in India, where she met Nehru & the Dalai Lama, among other major figures. She now lives in Bordighera, on the coast of Italy.

(Bowker Author Biography)