Gordon: A Novel (Vintage International) - Softcover

"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

In post-World War II London, Louisa, a young woman in the middle of a divorce, encounters the charismatic Richard Gordon, a psychiatrist, in a pub and becomes embroiled in an intense love affair with and virtual enslavement to Gordon. Reprint.