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Joy: Poet, Seeker and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis
Abigail Santamaria
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Description for Joy: Poet, Seeker and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis
Paperback. Joy Davidman is known, if she is known at all, as the wife of C. S. Lewis. Now, Abigail Santamaria brings Joy Davidman Gresham Lewis to the page in the fullness and depth she deserves. Num Pages: 413 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; 3JJ; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 494.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
SPCK Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
413
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780281074297
SKU
V9780281074297
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About Abigail Santamaria
Abigail Santamaria holds a MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University and has received fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation, Jentel Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Reviews for Joy: Poet, Seeker and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis
Abigail Santamaria's Joy is ... a relentlessly focused and detailed biography of Joy Davidman ... a serious and substantial work [that] takes the reader far beyond the familiar romance of the film and play Shadowlands, and the brilliance of Lewis's meditation on Davidman's death, A Grief Observed ... This groundbreaking study contributes not just to established Lewis studies, but brings ... Read more