My Story
- 336 stránok
- 12 hodin čítania
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 Poradie kníh
27. december 1913 – 4. marec 1986
Alžbeta Smartová zanechala výraznú stopu v kanadskej literatúre svojím jedinečným hlasom. Jej básnické a prozaické diela sú presiaknuté vášňou a hlbokou reflexiou. Najviac ju preslávil jej román, ktorý s výnimočnou otvorenosťou a poetickým štýlom opisuje intenzívny milostný príbeh. Smartovej próza často balansuje medzi drsnou realitou a snovou krajinou, čím skúma komplexnosť ľudských citov a vzťahov.
- 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'.