Though republished in 1963 under his own name after his death, the text still refers. Clerk because Lewis wished to avoid the connection. The book was published in 1961 under the pseudonym N.W. Lewis penned A Grief Observed the premise was less propositional, less a philosophical exploration or academic explication of concepts, and more a man’s wrestling match with God, a hip-out-of-joint memoir as it were. Urn:isbn:0061949302 Republisher_date 20120414232010 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120414125542 Scanner . Lewis 's reflections on his experience of bereavement following the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, in 1960. A Grief Observed Summary: A Startingly Letter To God. Urn:lcp:griefobserved00lewi_0:epub:efcefc4f-d28a-4938-9615-265f732f655d Extramarc University of Alberta Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier griefobserved00lewi_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6252qp44 Isbn 9780060652388Ġ060652381 Lccn 00063227 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL6794586M Openlibrary_edition A Grief Observed (1961) by CS Lewis: An honest meditation on mourning The Belfast-born writer is bravely open about being overwhelmed by his wife’s death Expand CS Lewis Brian Maye. He underwent treatment and continued to write, but died of kidney failure on November 22, 1963. Later that year, Lewis became ill with kidney disease.

Urn:lcp:griefobserved00lewi_0:lcpdf:a0820410-26dc-4f8c-baa7-780420dbbc8d She succumbed to cancer in 1960, and Lewis recounted his raw, faith-shaking grief in A Grief Observed (1961), which he published under the pseudonym N. Lewis’s A Grief Observed by Jacqueline Dooley Grief Book Club Medium 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:33:00 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA177101 Boxid_2 CH122601 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorĭanielsiders Edition 1st HarperCollins pbk.

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