A Grief Observed Paperback - 2015 - 1st Edition
by Lewis, C. S
- Used
This is the poignant account of how the great theologian faced the doubt, anger, and grief he experienced after losing his beloved wife to cancer. This book wrestles with the meaning of loss or lack of meaning with unswerving honesty.
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- Title A Grief Observed
- Author Lewis, C. S
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 112
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2015-04-21
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4072958-6
- ISBN 9780060652388 / 0060652381
- Weight 0.22 lbs (0.10 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.45 x 0.33 in (20.37 x 13.84 x 0.84 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Theometrics: Catholic
- Theometrics: Evangelical
- Theometrics: Mainline
- Topical: Christian Interest
- Topical: Death/Dying
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Consolation, Lewis, C. S - Religion
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00063227
- Dewey Decimal Code 242.4
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About this book
“A Grief Observed comprises the reflections of the great scholar and Christian on the death of his wife after only a few short years of marriage. Painfully honest in its dissection of his thoughts and feelings, this is a book that details his paralyzing grief, bewilderment and sense of loss in simple and moving prose.
Invaluable as an insight into the grieving process just as much as it is as an exploration of religious doubt, A Grief Observed will continue to offer its consoling insights to a huge range of readers, as it has for over fifty years.” From publisher Faber and Faber.
From the rear cover
Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moments," A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections of that period: "Nothing will shake a man--or at any rate a man like me--out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
This is a beautiful and unflinchingly honest record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and how he can gradually regain his bearings.
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- Christianity Today, 09/01/2010, Page 80
