My Story
- 336 pages
- 12 hours of reading
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 Books
December 27, 1913 – March 4, 1986
Elizabeth Smart forged a powerful and unique voice in Canadian literature through her poetry and novels. Her prose and verse overflow with passion and deep introspection. She is celebrated for her intensely personal novel that candidly and poetically chronicles a passionate love affair. Smart's writing often oscillates between raw reality and dreamlike visions, exploring the complexities of human emotion and relationships.
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'.
