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Gordon

A Novel

Gordon( )
Author: Templeton, Edith
Series title:Vintage International Ser.
ISBN:978-1-4000-3029-3
Publication Date:May 2004
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:Vintage
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $15.00
Book Description:

Louisa is a clever, self-reliant woman who has just been discharged from her duty as an officer in the British Army during World War II. In a London pub one afternoon she meets Gordon: a slight, peculiar psychiatrist with queer eyes and a strange charisma. Within an hour, Louisa has been sexually conquered by him on a garden bench. So begins an affair in which Gordon compulsively violates Louisa’s body and psyche, while Louisa matches his onslaughts with an insolent submission....
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Book Details
Pages:240
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Psychological
Fiction / City Life
Fiction / Erotica / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.13 x 8 x 0.5 Inches
Book Weight:0.562 Pounds
Author Biography
Templeton, Edith (Author)
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.

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