C. S. Lewis
Subtitle: A Life
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf Ed edition
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: August 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780786713769
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography; Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963; Biography / Autobiography; English; Biography/Autobiography; Literary; Religious; Biography & Autobiography / General; (Clive Staples),; 1898-1963; 20th century; Authors, English; Biography; Lewis, C. S
First sentence: Evening in Oxford, a few days before Christmas 1940. A bracing wind sweeps along St Giles and it is threatening to snow.
Description: "Clive Staples Lewis' path to renown as a groundbreaking literary critic, novelist, and Christian theologian was an intellectually and emotionally chaotic one, as Michael White reveals in this new biography. He follows the young Lewis, a nervous man profoundly depressed by the death of his mother, in a spiritually treacherous course that would take him through the trenches of World War I to the upper ranks of English literature. White deconstructs Lewis' novels and religious works to reveal the frequently tormented soul and imagination from which they sprung. Equally important, he delves into the mythos surrounding Lewis and rediscovers the man beneath."--BOOK JACKET.