SEINFELD BLOG

A Grief Observed

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 242.4
EAN: 9780060652388
ISBN: 0060652381
Label: HarperOne
Manufacturer: HarperOne
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: February 01, 2001
Publisher: HarperOne
Release Date: February 06, 2001
Sales Rank: 2755
Studio: HarperOne

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
In this classic trial of faith, C. S. Lewis probes the fundamental issues of life and death, and summons those who grieve to honest mourning and hope in the midst of loss.

Amazon.com Review:
C.S. Lewis joined the human race when his wife, Joy Gresham, died of cancer. Lewis, the Oxford don whose Christian apologetics make it seem like he's 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--will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was 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 has 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. It is 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 gradually regain his bearings. --Michael Joseph Gross




Rating: - A Grief Observed
The person I bought the book for enjoyed the book and praised the information on grief.

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Rating: - A Grief Observed
After the loss of my husband it was suggested that I read this book. It is a book that should be ... Read More

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Rating: - C.S. Lewis Classic
Heartfelt and gripping. This genra is one that is hard to put your mind around, however it is something ... Read More

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Rating: - sad but inspiring
Easily the saddest book I have ever read, C.S. Lewis' book A Grief Observed is his journal he wrote after ... Read More

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Rating: - If you have lost the love of your life
When my husband died after a long illness, someone recommended this book. One of the hardest parts about ... Read More

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