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By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept

by Elizabeth Smart
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By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept

Love transfigured into searing poetic prose

Elizabeth Smart fictionalizes her intense affair with poet George Barker. First published in 1945, the novel draws directly on their tragic relationship. Its passionate, immediate prose has established it as a modern classic.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9780008610005
Authors: Elizabeth Smart
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance
Related Topics: Historical Romance

Description

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, 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.
 

Love transfigured into searing poetic prose

Elizabeth Smart fictionalizes her intense affair with poet George Barker. First published in 1945, the novel draws directly on their tragic relationship. Its passionate, immediate prose has established it as a modern classic.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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