A Grief Observed

C.S. Lewis

A Grief Observed probes the "mad midnight moments" of Lewis' mourning and loss, moments in which he questioned what he had previously believed about life and death, marriage, and even God. Indecision and self-pity assailed Lewis. "We are under the harrow and can't escape," he writes. "I know that the thing I want is exactly the thing I can never get. The old life, the jokes, the drinks, the arguments, the lovemaking, the tiny, heartbreaking commonplace." Writing A Grief Observed as "a defense against total collapse, a safety valve," he came to recognize that "bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love."

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76 pages
Paperback
Published 1961
size: 8.0 x 5.25 x 0.30"
ISBN: 978-0-06-065238-8