Gordon

ISBN-13: 9780241964644 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str.

Edith Templeton

Opis

In 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. Thus begins her baffling but magnetic love affair with Richard Gordon.

Recenzje

A fine alternative for those frustrated by the anodyne S&M relationship in Fifty Shades of Grey . . . not only an unsettling portrait of psycho-sexual entanglement but also an exquisite love story Independent

O autorze

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 the French lycée in Prague and left the city in 1938 to marry an Englishman. Her short stories began to appear in The New Yorker in the 1950s and caused a major stir because of their sexual explicitness (these stories are available in one volume entitled The Darts of Cupid as a Penguin ebook).

Gordon first appeared in 1966 under the pseudonym Louise Walbrook and was subsequently banned in England and Germany; it was then pirated around the world, appearing under various titles. In 2001, Edith Templeton agreed to publish the novel, with its original title, under her own name. She died in 2006.