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Biography & Autobiography Literary

The Arms of the Infinite

Elizabeth Smart and George Barker

by (author) Christopher Barker

Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2010
Category
Literary, Social History, Women's Studies
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781554583256
    Publish Date
    Nov 2010
    List Price
    $14.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781554582709
    Publish Date
    Nov 2010
    List Price
    $29.95

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Description

The Arms of the Infinite takes the reader inside the minds of author Christopher Barker’s parents, writer Elizabeth Smart (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept) and poet George Barker. From their first fateful meeting and subsequent elopement, Barker candidly reveals their obsessive, passionate, and volatile love affair.

He writes evocatively of his unconventional upbringing with his siblings in a shack in Ireland and, later, a rambling, falling-down house in Essex. Interesting and charismatic figures from the literary and art worlds are regular visitors, and the book is full of fascinating cameos and anecdotes.

North American rights only.

About the author

Primarily a photographer, Christopher Barker is also a writer, whose article Life at Tilty Mill, featured in Granta (2002), formed the basis for this book. The Arms of the Infinite was first published in the United Kingdom in 2006.

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