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 Volgorde van de boeken
27 december 1913 – 4 maart 1986
Elizabeth Smart smeedde een krachtige en unieke stem in de Canadese literatuur door haar poëzie en romans. Haar proza en verzen bruisen van passie en diepe introspectie. Ze wordt gevierd om haar intens persoonlijke roman die openhartig en poëtisch een gepassioneerde liefdesaffaire beschrijft. Smart's schrijven oscilleert vaak tussen rauwe realiteit en droomachtige visioenen, waarbij de complexiteit van menselijke emoties en relaties wordt onderzocht.
- 2013
- 1992
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.
- 1992
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'.