![]() ![]() One day, while browsing in a London bookshop, she chanced upon a slim volume of poetry by George Barker-and fell passionately in love with him through the printed word. She was educated at private schools in Canada and for a year at King's College, University of London. ![]() 'I doubt if there are half a dozen such masterpieces in the world.' - Brigid Brophy About the Author:Įlizabeth Smart was born in Ottawa,Canada, in 1913. to move the reader, and even to awe him.' - London Review of Books ![]() 'The emotion, the true and abject affliction, conics through. This short, powerful work had a profound influence on rue and was one of the factors that made me want to be a writer.' - Beryl Bainbridge 'Constructed as a single, sustained climax, it is like a cry of ecstasy which, without changing volume or pitch, becomes a cry of agony.' - Spectator 'Explores a passion between a man and two women, one of them his wife - a love both despairing and triumphant upon which the reader may gaze, awed, appalled, or even, perhaps, envious.' - The Times ![]() And he or she recognizes an emotion essential and permanent to us.' - Michael Ondaatje 'At some point every good reader comes across By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. 'Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening. ![]()
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