Gordon: A Novel - Brossura

Templeton, Edith

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1400030293 ISBN 13: 9781400030293

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2004

Riassunto

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.

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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

L'autore

Edith Templeton was born in Prague in 1916, and spent much of her childhood in a castle in the Bohemian countryside. She was educated at a French lycée in Prague, and left that city in 1938 to marry an Englishman. During her years in Britain, she worked in the Office of the Chief Surgeon for the U.S. Army in Cheltenham, and then became a captain in the British Army, working as a high-level conference interpreter. Her short stories began to appear in The New Yorker in the fifties, and over the enxt several decades she published a number of novels, as well as a popular travel book, The Surprise of Cremona, in the United Kingdom.

Mrs. Templeton left England in 1956 to live in India with her second husband, a celebrated cardiologist and the physician to the King of Nepal. She has since lived in various parts of Europe, and now makes her home in Bordighera, on the coast of Italy.

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1400030293
• ISBN 13: 9781400030293
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240