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| A Grief Observed | 
 enlarge | Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: HarperOne
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  141 reviews
Sales Rank: 1973
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.3
ISBN: 0060652381
Dewey Decimal Number: 242.4
EAN: 9780060652388
ASIN: 0060652381
Publication Date: February 1, 2001
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| Customer Reviews:
when you doubt your religion March 11, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Anyone struggling with anger, disbelief, and overwhelming saddness from the sickness or death of a loved one should spend the brief time it takes to read the book. A beautiful love story in its own right, C.S. Lewis intimately shares his doubts and at times his rage at his god and his religion. Gripping, poignant, excellent.
 A Grief Observed February 22, 2006
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
We all must face Death of a loved one or also for ourselves. Its one point of view, but everyone handles it differently. It was ok.
An accurate description of grief done in magnificent writing. January 30, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Having been through the loss of my spouse to cancer recently, I had a very difficult time even figuring out what it was that I was feeling. I was able to relate so much to C.S. Lewis's account of his own grief. His writing is magnificent, and his remarkable views on grief have been helping me get a whole new perspective on my own grief and loss. I highly recommend it for any christian struggling with the grief of their loved ones (especially spouse).
 Efficacious January 17, 2006
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Lewis' "A Grief Observed" is surely shocking to anyone who has read "The Great Divorce" or "The Screwtape Letters". Not merely for the depth of Lewis' crisis of faith, but for the savagery with which he dispatches our common platitudes about loss.
This is one area in which Lewis and I diverge in our experience of the death of our wives. Where Lewis is affronted by assurances of salvation, such realities are a great comfort to me. In most other aspects, Lewis does a remarkable job of expressing the inexpressible, and it makes me want to give this book to those around me so that they can understand.
I continue to be surprised by the extent to which shared experience is reassuring - I do not think I am the kind of person who needs affirmation of my thoughts or feelings. Either the death of a spouse is so traumatic that I am unable to cope alone, or it has peeled off the veneer of my self-reliance. In any case, reading Lewis, with his wonderful capacity for imagery, expressing what I cannot express, has been a great benefit.
"A Grief Observed" feels compressed. It is a quick read, but surely comprises in its unedited form the many pages of manuscript that Lewis references. There are some uncomfortable moments, such as the mention of "the spirtualists" and the strange mental encounter that Lewis reports. But though accelerated, both the maddening grief, and the slow healing, are authentic and bear familiar touches. The loss of value in familiar and once-treasured things, the desire for company with the simultaneous resistance to conversation, the sense of wandering the same landscape and going in circles - I share all of these sensations with Lewis. But reading his description allows me to put my finger on things that are otherwise amorphous and ill-related.
I have to deduct one star from the review as a protest against the (thankfully brief) foreward by Madeleine L'Engle. As I have repeated complained in reviews on Amazon.com, I do not understand the predilection of publishers for selecting the most inapropriate people to write forewards. Prefacing Lewis' work with a writer who complains of the "pre-Copernican attitude toward death" of the church strikes me as an attempt by the publisher to recruit Lewis toward the new-age secular spiritualism that would have been anathema. I have to hope for a future Ignatius Press version with a foreward by Joseph Pearce.
Riveting January 11, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
"A GRIEF OBSERVED" is a look through a Christian perspective at loss, grief and recovery. One of the best written books, similar to another deep and emotional book along the same line [...]If you are dealing with grief, and need answers, these books will offer that and much more.
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