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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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"Riveting, intelligent, delicately written. . . . Templeton is an extraordinarily gifted and acerbic observer of the weirder reaches of love." -The Seattle Times "Imagine Jane Austen and D.H. Lawrence sharing an engrossed conversation about social snobbery and the wolfish pursuit of obsessive sex and you have something of Templeton's atmosphere." -Los Angeles Times Book Review "[An] eerie tale of sexual obsession. . . . One part Story of O to two parts Muriel Spark, the book beautifully evokes the tightened belts and loosened morals of postwar London." --The New Yorker "Gordon is one of the great classics of erotic literature." -W Magazine
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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 sexualexplicitness. She has lived in India and Portugal, and now makes her home in Bordighera, Italy.
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- PublisherViking
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0670913901
- ISBN 13 9780670913909
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages240
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