{"product_id":"9780307426079","title":"Gordon: A Novel","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published under a pseudonym in 1966, \u003cb\u003eGordon\u003c\/b\u003e 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.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47116388827376,"sku":"9780307426079","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780307426079_p0.jpg?v=1763672708","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780307426079","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}