By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept
Smart, Elizabeth, 1913-19862015
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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.
Main title:
By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept / Elizabeth Smart.
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Imprint:
London : Fourth Estate, 2015.
Collation:
112 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780586090398 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.54813.52AFGEN
Local class:
F
Language:
English
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BRN:
7669