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Joy (Paperback)
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Joy (Paperback)
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Loot Price R307
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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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