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This is a passionate account of the author's intense love affair with the poet George Barker. It explores a passion between a man and two women, one of them his wife - a love both despairing and triumphant.
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'Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening... a masterpiece' - Angela Carter
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'Fresh, vivid, candid, fine ... a novel of our time.' - Cyril Connolly
'At some point every good reader comes across By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. And he or she recognizes an emotion essential and permanent to us.' - Michael Ondaatje
'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
'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
'A revelation ...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
'The emotion, the true and abject affliction, conics through ... to move the reader, and even to awe him.' - London Review of Books
'I doubt if there are half a dozen such masterpieces in the world.' - Brigid Brophy
Elizabeth Smart was born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1913. She was educated at private schools in Canada and, for a year, at King’s College, University of London. Her landmark work, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept was published in 1945. After the war she supported herself and her family through journalism and advertising work. In 1963 she became literary and associate editor of Queen magazine but subsequently dropped out of the literary scene to live quietly in a remote part of Suffolk. She died in 1986.
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- PublisherUniv of Toronto Pr
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0888790481
- ISBN 13 9780888790484
- BindingHardcover
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By Grand Central station I sat down and wept
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Deneau Publishers
(1981)
ISBN 10: 0888790481
ISBN 13: 9780888790484
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Yes. 1st Printing. Item is only in "acceptable" condition. It has been extensively read and shows many signs of wear to the cover, dust jacket, spine and pages, dog ears and yellowing. Perfectly readable, but not suitable for a gift or collection. Reading copy only. Dust jacket is well worn. Book has a slight lean. Binding is tight. Former library book with usual library stamps, tape stains, markings and shelf wear. (Please note any image provided in our listings is a stock photo supplied by AbeBooks and does not match the cover of the actual item.). Seller Inventory # 3827
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By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Published by
Deneau Publishers, Ottawa
ISBN 10: 0888790481
ISBN 13: 9780888790484
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Book Description [0-88879-048-1] 1981. (hardcover) Fine in very good dust jacket. 128pp. 8vo. First published in 1945, this is, some would say a 'cult classic'. It is a poetic prose novel, long identified as one of the best examples from that genre in literature, which tells the narrative of Smart's affair with George Barker, the British poet. The jacket front shows a crease and some wear along the top edge and is now in a loose. Mylar sleeve to prevent any further wear. The book itself is in fine condition. Seller Inventory # 129951
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