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Joy

by Abigail Santamaria

  • Ebook
  • Publisher: SPCK

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For readers interested in C.S. Lewis's life and love

Reveals the untold story of Joy Davidman's journey

You will gain insight into love, faith, and creativity

Discover the inspiring life of Joy Davidman, C.S. Lewis's beloved partner.

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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 Dianeti; 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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  • Author

    Abigail Santamaria

  • Book Format

    eBook (Christian360)

  • Publisher

    SPCK

  • Published

    August 2015

  • ISBN

    9780281074280

  • ISBN-10

    0281074283

  • Eden Code

    6179556

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