BY GRAND CENTRAL STATION I SAT DOWN AND WEPT (4TH ESTATE)

Originally published in 1945, this is Elizabeth Smart's fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker. 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 he and his wife flew from Japan to join her in the United States. Thus began one of the most extraordinary, intense, and ultimately tragic love affairs of our time.