My Story
- 336 Seiten
- 12 Lesestunden
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 Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)
27. Dezember 1913 – 4. März 1986
Elizabeth Smart schuf eine kraftvolle und einzigartige Stimme in der kanadischen Literatur durch ihre Gedichte und Romane. Ihre Prosa und Verse sind voller Leidenschaft und tiefer Introspektion. Sie ist berühmt für ihren äußerst persönlichen Roman, der offen und poetisch eine leidenschaftliche Liebesaffäre chronologisch festhält. Smartes Schreiben oszilliert oft zwischen roher Realität und traumartigen Visionen und erforscht die Komplexität menschlicher Emotionen und Beziehungen.
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'.