Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis - Hardcover

Santamaria, Abigail

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0281074275 ISBN 13: 9780281074273

Verlag: SPCK Publishing, 2015

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'A superb researcher, Santamaria has gathered a vast array of previously unmined resources that illuminate the complexity of Joy's character and help deepen our appreciation of what drew her to Lewis - and Lewis to her.' Marjorie Lamp Mead, author of A Reader's Guide Through the Wardrobe 'Born a Jew but jolted into full Christianity by a soul-shattering vision ... Davidman was manipulative, endearing, brilliant and obsessive - and Lewis, one of the most influential and beloved spiritual writers of the 20th century, fell in love with all of it. Davidman's search for meaning and her final arrival at love will resonate deeply long after the reader has closed Santamaria's masterful biography.' Kate Buford, author of Native American Son

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Joy Davidman is known, if she is known at all, as the wife of C. S. Lewis. Their marriage was immortalized in the film Shadowlands and Lewis's memoir, A Grief Observed. Now, through extraordinary new documents as well as years of research and interviews, Abigail Santamaria brings Joy Davidman Gresham Lewis to the page in the fullness and depth she deserves. A poet and radical, Davidman was a frequent contributor to the communist vehicle New Masses and an active member of New York literary circles in the 1930s and 40s. After growing up Jewish in the Bronx, she was an atheist, then a practitioner of Dianetics; she converted to Christianity after experiencing a moment of transcendent grace. A mother, a novelist, a vibrant and difficult and intelligent woman, she set off for England in 1952, determined to captivate the man whose work had changed her life. Davidman became the intellectual and spiritual partner Lewis never expected but cherished. She helped him refine his autobiography, Surprised by Joy, and to write his novel Till We Have Faces. Their relationship - begun when Joy wrote to Lewis as a religious guide - grew from a dialogue about faith, writing, and poetry into a deep friendship and a timeless love story.

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• Verlag: SPCK Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0281074275
• ISBN 13: 9780281074273
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416