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
- & fell passionately in love with him through the printed word. Eventually they communicated directly &, as a result of Barker`s impecunious circumstances, Elizabeth Smart flew both him & his wife from Japan, where he was teaching, to join her in the United States. Thus began one of the most extraordinary, intense & ultimately tragic love affairs of our time. They never married but Elizabeth bore George Barker four children & their relationship provided the impassioned inspiration for one of the most moving & immediate chronicles of a love affair ever written
- By Grand Central Station I Sat Down & 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 & power of impact.