![]() ![]() Today, its force still strikes us hard in the face, a beautiful and bloody blow.’ Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday ‘Few writers have ever captured the full honesty of what passion means as shockingly and as piercingly as Smart. ‘Explores a passion between a man and two women, one of them his wife – a love despairing and triumphant upon which the reader may gaze, awed, appalled, or even, perhaps, envious.’ The Times ‘I doubt if there are more than half a dozen such masterpieces of poetic prose in the world.’ Brigid Brophy ‘A revelation.This short, powerful work has a profound influence on me and was one of the factors that made me want to be a writer.’ Beryl Bainbridge And he or she recognises an emotion essential and permanent to us.’ Michael Ondaatje ‘At some point every good reader comes across “By Grand Central Station I sat Down and Wept”. ‘Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening. ![]()
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