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Original Title:	Gordon: A Novel
ISBN:	0375421947 (ISBN13: 9780375421945)
Edition Language:	English

Gordon

Edith Templeton

Hardcover | Pages: 240 pages

Rating: 3.41 | 399 Users | 42 Reviews

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Originally written under a pseudonym, this thrilling novel of passion in post-World War II London was banned upon its publication in the late 1960s, and is only now being republished under the author's real name. Edith Templeton creates an indelible character in the smartly dressed Louisa, a savvy young woman in the midst of a divorce who 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, 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.

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Title	:	Gordon
Author	:	Edith Templeton
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	March 4th 2003 by Pantheon (first published 1966)
Categories	:	Adult Fiction. Erotica. Fiction. BDSM. Adult

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Ratings: 3.41 From 399 Users | 42 Reviews

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Remind of Iris Ogawa's Hotel Iris, it draws you in the story. In spite of its unusual elements, it is nonetheless one of the universal love stories, with discovering the other, discussing with him, gaining insight in yourself.

This isn't romance and this isn't erotica. It's far more about the psychology of sex and need and is only erotic if you're into a certain wry, distant, sharp-edged attitude. There's no flowery language or description of the act itself; it's about the mental states of everyone involved, so don't go for this one imagining it's another Fifty Shades or Anais Nin. It's good, but says more about post-war psychology and sexual freedom than it does about desire or emotions. There's certain aspects that

A quick and easy read. Not the kind of thing I'd normally read, but picked it up while bored one day. The writing's not bad, if a tad scattered at times, and I guess it was rather risqué for its time, though very tame by today's standards.It passed a couple of hours, and I'd give it 2.5 stars if it would let me.

This novel is intriguing - it was banned in England for indecency when it was published in 1966, which of course made it an instant hit, published legitimately in France and pirated all over the world. Now it has been re-published as a classic of erotica in the the wake of 50 Shades (with which, in my opinion, it has absolutely no business to be compared). Of course, the indecent bits are tame by today's standards (well, the sexual descriptions, anyhow - for me the real cruelty lay in the

I thought I'd read this book as a more literary predecessor to the horror that is Fifty Shades of Gray, and then force myself to read 50S as a way to have legitimate opinions about it and the weird world of the Middle aged White Woman Today. But this book. It's so "of a certain time" that I couldn't deal. Published 1966 and full of the Rape is Sexy portion of literary erotica so prevalent then. Bleah. I wouldn't have banned it for obscenity, but because every character is completely

Yeesh. If you ever want to refer someone to an example of a "bad mid-century psychological novel" look no farther. Psychoanalysis was getting a pretty bad rap towards the end of its era of literary influence and books like this are evidence that criticism was well-deserved. This book has one of the most distasteful, contemptible antagonists I have ever encountered. The protagonist, who tells the story of her brutal love affair with the former, is pretty drab and dismal herself. There are lots of

Racy and full of 1950s psychology. Not great, but fairly interesting.