Hers is a voice that distils a woman's determination for survival - a voice that rises up from everyday life, from the bus queue, the Underground, the pub - and in Elizabeth Smart's hand is wrought into something magnificent. Elizabeth Smarts passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described. Out of a passionate youth, through pain and harsh revelation, she has attained a maturity - a certain knowledge that the cost of rapture is high and that there is no looking back. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. She must learn to deflect Grand Passion into an acceptance of the rogues and rascals with their radiant faces, who buy her a bitter with borrowed cash. She must learn to submit to the cold, bare, unglamorous tenets of reality - the untenable position of love. Other articles where By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept is discussed: Canadian literature: Modern period, 190060: Elizabeth Smart’s incantatory novel By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (1945) is a frank and poetic account of obsessive love. First published in 1978, and widely considered to be the sequel to her masterpiece 'By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept', this remarkable book further established Smart's reputation as a brave and inspirational writer.Ī still beautiful woman, 31 years old with four children by a faithless lover, cannot break the habit of expectation.
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