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First published in 1978, and widely considered to be the sequel to her masterpiece 'By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept', this remarkable book further established Smart's reputation as a brave and inspirational writer. A still beautiful woman, 31 years old with four children by a faithless lover, cannot break the habit of expectation. She must learn to submit to the cold, bare, unglamorous tenets of reality - the untenable position of love. She must learn to deflect Grand Passion into an acceptance of the rogues and rascals with their lovely radiant faces, who buy her a bitter with borrowed cash. Out of a passionate youth, through pain and harsh revelation, she has attained a profound maturity - a certain knowledge that the cost of rapture is high and that there is no looking back. Hers is a voice that eloquently distils a woman's determination for survival - a voice that rises up from everyday life, from the bus queue, the Underground, the pub - and in Elizabeth Smart's hand is wrought into something magnificent.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals
• Author: Elizabeth Smart
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9780008155742
• ISBN: 0008155747
• ID: 09390175
• Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
• Weight: 160 g
• Dimensions: 135 × 196 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. August 2015

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