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By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, is widely recognised to be a classic.
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'Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening... a masterpiece' - Angela Carter
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, is widely recognised to be a classic.
From the Publisher
'Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening... a masterpiece' - Angela Carter
'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
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- The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Eva-Marie Kröller in Front Matter, page 161, and page 196
- The Impartial Recorder: A Novel by Ian Sansom on page 217, and Index
- The Secret Language of Love by Megan Tresidder on page 148, and Back Matter
- The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer on page 187, and Index
- The Arnold Anthology of Postcolonial Literatures in English by John Thieme in Table of Contents, and Front Matter
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