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.
- ISBN10 1554582709
- ISBN13 9781554582709
- Publish Date 30 November 2010 (first published 4 July 2006)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 258
- Language English