My Story
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Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped on June 5, 2002, chained, disguised and raped repeatedly, tells how she readjusted to life after the kidnapping
Elizabeth Smart Ordine dei libri (cronologico)
27 dicembre 1913 – 4 marzo 1986
Elizabeth Smart ha forgiato una voce potente e unica nella letteratura canadese attraverso la sua poesia e i suoi romanzi. La sua prosa e il suo verso traboccano di passione e profonda introspezione. È celebrata per il suo romanzo intensamente personale che racconta con franchezza e in modo poetico una appassionata storia d'amore. La scrittura della Smart oscilla spesso tra la cruda realtà e le visioni oniriche, esplorando le complessità dell'emozione e delle relazioni umane.
First published in 1945, Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept is an enigmatic and nearly indescribable book, a small classic of poetic prose whose author has been compared with Anaïs Nin and Djuna Barnes. In lushly evocative language, Smart recounts her love affair with the poet George Barker with an operatic grandeur that takes in the tragedy of her passion; the suffering of Barker's wife; the children the lovers conceived. Accompanied in this edition by The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals, a short novel that may be read as its sequel, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept has been hailed by critics worldwide as a work of sheer genius.
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'.