By grand central station I sat down and wept (Hardcover, 2023, Collins Modern Classics)
xvi, 134 sivua ; 20 cm, 134 sidor
På English
Publicerades 2023 av Collins Modern Classics.
"One day, while browsing in a London bookshop, Elizabeth Smart chanced upon a slim volume of poetry by George Barker - and fell passionately in love with him through the printed word. Eventually they communicated directly and, as a result of Barker's impecunious circumstances, Elizabeth Smart flew both him and his wife from Japan, where he was teaching, to join her in the United States. Thus began one of the most extraordinary, intense and ultimately tragic love affairs of our time. They never married but Elizabeth bore George Barker four children and their relationship provided the impassioned inspiration for one of the most moving and immediate chronicles of a love affair ever written."
"One day, while browsing in a London bookshop, Elizabeth Smart chanced upon a slim volume of poetry by George Barker - and fell passionately in love with him through the printed word. Eventually they communicated directly and, as a result of Barker's impecunious circumstances, Elizabeth Smart flew both him and his wife from Japan, where he was teaching, to join her in the United States. Thus began one of the most extraordinary, intense and ultimately tragic love affairs of our time. They never married but Elizabeth bore George Barker four children and their relationship provided the impassioned inspiration for one of the most moving and immediate chronicles of a love affair ever written."
It was tough to write the review, because I was simply emotionally touched and overwhelmed. How do you write something that allow the reader to get a feel for that? Elizabeth Smart managed it with her words.
Falling in love, as presented through a never-ending barrage of feverish metaphors, similes and allegories. Curiously, I'm not sure any of them are bad; you could probably read this book a hundred times and get stuck on different phrases every time. But as a whole, it's more exhausting than entrancing trying to penetrate (eh) this mass of words to get at anything beneath it.
Falling in love, as presented through a never-ending barrage of feverish metaphors, similes and allegories. Curiously, I'm not sure any of them are bad; you could probably read this book a hundred times and get stuck on different phrases every time. But as a whole, it's more exhausting than entrancing trying to penetrate (eh) this mass of words to get at anything beneath it.
