Description
| Product ID: | 9780008610005 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept |
| Authors: | Author: Elizabeth Smart |
| Page Count: | 160 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: writers, Autobiography: literary, Memoirs, True stories: general, Poetry, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary, Memoirs, True stories, Poetry, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Japan, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Elizabeth Smart’s passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as ‘Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening … A masterpiece’. Elizabeth Smart’s passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as ‘Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening … A masterpiece’.One day, while browsing in a London bookshop, Elizabeth Smart chanced upon a slim volume of poetry by George Barker – and fell passionately in love with him through the printed word. Eventually they communicated directly and, as a result of Barker’s impecunious circumstances, Elizabeth Smart flew both him and his wife from Japan, where he was teaching, to join her in the United States. Thus began one of the most extraordinary, intense and ultimately tragic love affairs of our time. They never married but Elizabeth bore George Barker four children and their relationship provided the impassioned inspiration for one of the most moving and immediate chronicles of a love affair ever written – By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept.Originally published in 1945, this remarkable book is now widely identified as a classic work of poetic prose which, more than six decades later, has retained all of its searing poignancy, beauty and power of impact. |
| Imprint Name: | Fourth Estate Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-04-13 |
