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 lightning ... 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, seven decades later, has retained all of its
searing poignancy, beauty and power of impact.
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