He knew that he was marrying a woman who was dying of cancer.” She went into a period of remission which allowed them an extended period of time as a married couple, but in the end, their marriage was comparably short.

Lewis married Joy Davidson, it was a pretty certain expectation that she would die first, unless there was an unexpected accident, for she was in the hospital.

In the Foreword, Madeleine L’Engle relates the fact that “when C. The book is a chronological progression of Lewis’ state of mind as he grieved over the loss of his wife, Joy, to cancer. My copy of A Grief Observed consists of 76 pages organized into 4 chapters. When I indicate small, I mean this book is slender enough to be read in the span of one pot of coffee, or perhaps two large cups of tea I suppose Lewis would have preferred the tea. None of them were particularly large, but one was almost a pamphlet, bearing the title A Grief Observed. One of the volumes in the stack of works by Lewis was rather thin. If he took too long to return, however, they would become annotated copies. I informed him that his name would forever remain inside the cover and that he could return to retrieve his volumes any time that he wished. Given the nature of my two queries, I could take the former answer prima facie but have continued to this day to doubt the latter. I inquired as to his sanity, and he assured me that his actions stemmed from sound-reasoning. As such, I inquired as to his health he said he felt fine. The fact that all of them bore my friend’s name, in the upper right-hand corner of the first page, caused his donation to seem more like a purging than a gift.

The version that I read has a lovely and honest introduction by Madeline L'Engle.A few years ago, I received a pile of books from a friend, several of which were works by C. That did give me a significant amount of comfort. If nothing else, A Grief Observed showed me quite clearly that I did not lose my faith during the time of my own grieving. It shows such bravery for this Christian man to display his loss of faith so openly to the reader. The evolution of Lewis' grief is what I think most people will find useful in this book, as it may give other readers hope that we will come out of the depths eventually. I found Chapter 3, where a great healing is taking place, to be the most helpful as I also learn how to heal. Some sections of the memoir worked very well for me, while others (particularly Chapter 2, when C.S. I knew that it wouldn't be exactly applicable to my situation, but I was looking for a story of grief from a Christian's point of view. A Grief Observed was the first book that I was able to read after my beloved cat of 19 years passed away.

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