By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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'. Zusammenfassung 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’.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Smart
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 13.04.2023
• EAN: 9780008610005
• ISBN: 978-0-00-861000-5
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Collins Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japan, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, True stories, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Psychological, Poetry, Memoirs, True stories: general, Autobiography: literary, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Autobiography: writers, FICTION / Urban & Street Lit, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary