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Title: C. S. Lewis Through the Shadowlands: The Story of His Life With Joy Davidman by Brian Sibley ISBN: 0-8007-8670-X Publisher: Spire Books Pub. Date: October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Myth that Really Happened
Comment: This is the most heartrendingly true, real, unfettered love story ever lived or written about. Brian Sibley has masterfully set the achingly beautiful love story between Jack Lewis and Joy Gresham within the masterfully researched and delightfully detailed context of the greater love story which God the Master storyteller was writing through their lives. This is the definitive work proving the maxim that the book is always better than the movie.
Filled with wonderful quotes not only from the extensive works of Lewis, both before and after the entrance of Joy into his world, this work also excerpts from Joy's writings and the writings of the many literary and philosophical geniuses of their world. Journal entries from Jack's brother Warnie bring special intimacy to the daily life and passages toward death of both characters, and Douglas Gresham's experience as son and step-son told through conversations and remembrances are invaluable close-up additions to the tale.
Altogether surprising are the two seemingly disparate threads of Jack and Joy's continents-apart lives and paths to faith. (These journeys to awakening are surprising in themselves.) The seeming coincidences that bring them together as pen-mates and ultimately marriage partners bring the reader to the unmistakable conclusion that "the fair Silent Thou" was at work all along in the quiet, relentless weaving of their lives.
The reader familiar with the works of C.S. Lewis will see by story's end that this miraculously joyful, simultaneously tragic love story is in reality True Myth shining through into our shadowlands anew. As Lewis was convinced, and has convinced me, myth is the vehicle through which God speaks to man, and the story of the happily-ever-after love, even through death and grief, is the greatest story ever told, as well as the most Real. For this reason it breaks our hearts while transporting us into the joyful longing to be a part of it.
Brian Sibley gently proves the need for this particular myth to become true in Jack's battened-down bachelor soul. In the friendliest and most respectful of ways Sibley shows the necessary journey that the life and death of Joy Gresham, the most unlikely of angels, set our hero upon, and what adventures he had therein, and how it ended happily ever after.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good read
Comment: A very readable and well-done book which highlights the fascinating relationship between two people who would seem to have little in common. Even better than the movie!
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Title:Shadowlands ASIN: 0783113315 Publisher: Hbo Studios Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $9.97 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $9.97 |
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Title: Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis by Douglas H. Gresham ISBN: 0060634472 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 03 June, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Jack: A Life of C.S. Lewis by George Sayer ISBN: 0891077618 Publisher: Crossway Books Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C.S. Lewis ISBN: 0156870118 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 23 March, 1966 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Shadowlands by William Nicholson ISBN: 0452267323 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: November, 1991 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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