{"product_id":"9780008610005","title":"By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Smart, Elizabeth \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 13\/04\/2023,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 160 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008610005,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth 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’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e One day, while browsing in a London bookshop, Elizabeth Smart chanced upon a slim volume of poetry by George Barker – and fell passionately in love with him through the printed word. Eventually they communicated directly and, as a result of Barker’s impecunious circumstances, Elizabeth Smart flew both him and his wife from Japan, where he was teaching, to join her in the United States. Thus began one of the most extraordinary, intense and ultimately tragic love affairs of our time. They never married but Elizabeth bore George Barker four children and their relationship provided the impassioned inspiration for one of the most moving and immediate chronicles of a love affair ever written – By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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 and power of impact.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41589749940268,"sku":"9780008610005","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780008610005_c7f73cfa-85a1-49aa-a458-3ba7641e358f.jpg?v=1759670014","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780008610005","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}