Gordon: A Novel
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ISBN: 1400030293 / Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, May 2004
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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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. As their entanglement deepens, Louisa finds a heady emotional satisfaction beneath the humiliation that Gordon inflicts, and comes to a new understanding of her troubled history and the self that has emerged from it.<br><br>Originally published under a pseudonym in 1966, <b>Gordon</b> was banned in England and Germany for its frank sexual content, and even today it remains provocative in its fearless probing of the boundaries of consent and submission.
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