A Grief Observed

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ISBN13: 9780060652739
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A classic work on grief, A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis’s honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the course of loss. Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad nighttime moments,” A Grief Observed an unflinchingly truthful account of how loss can lead even a stalwart believer to lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and the inspirational tale of how he can possibly regain his bearings. 

C.S. Lewis joined the human race when his wife, Joy Gresham, died of cancer. Lewis, the Oxford don whose Christian apologetics make it look like he is got an answer for everything, experienced crushing doubt for the first time after his wife’s tragic death. A Grief Observed contains his epigrammatic reflections on that period: “Your bid–for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity–might not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you are going to never discover how serious it was once until the stakes are raised horribly high,” Lewis writes. “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 needs 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 the book that inspired the film Shadowlands, but it is more wrenching, more revelatory, and more real than the movie. This can be 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 steadily regain his bearings. –Michael Joseph Gross
ISBN13: 9780060652739
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