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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
Hardcover. The first full biography of Joy Davidman brings her out from C. S. Lewis's shadow to reveal a powerful writer and thinker. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 170 x 42. Weight in Grams: 814.
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 ... 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
SPCK Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780281074273
SKU
V9780281074273
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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
'A superb researcher, Santamaria has gathered a vast array of previously unmined resources that illuminate the complexity of Joy's character and help deepen our appreciation of what drew her to Lewis - and Lewis to her.' Marjorie Lamp Mead, author of A Reader's Guide Through the Wardrobe 'Born a Jew but jolted into full Christianity by a soul-shattering vision ... Read more