Gordon - Softcover

Templeton, Edith

3.4

528 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141011874 ISBN 13: 9780141011875

Publisher: Penguin, 2004

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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.

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Review:

A fine alternative for those frustrated by the anodyne S&M relationship in Fifty Shades of Grey . . . not only an unsettling portrait of psycho-sexual entanglement but also an exquisite love story (Independent)

A haunting, powerfully fascinating work of bold, desolate honesty. Terrible, believeable, inexorable (New Statesman)

Remarkable and unusual, memorable and unsettling (Daily Telegraph)

Reading Gordon is a chilling experience. The power of the novel lies in its determination to present a relationship that still inhabits the realm of the taboo (Sunday Herald)

Fascinating, spellbinding (Candia McWilliam Evening Standard)

A compelling story which offers no easy conclusions and deserves a significant place in the history of women's writing (Observer)

About the Author:

Edith Templeton was born in Bohemia in 1916 and went to live in England as a young woman. Her short stories, to be published next year by Viking, caused a major stir when first published by the New Yorker over forty years ago because of their sexual explicitness. She has lived in India and Portugal, and now makes her home in Bordighera, Italy.

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