A Severe Mercy, Davy's Edition [Paperback] and 50 similar items

Visually inspected by owner: Paperback as pictured, no text marks, and solid binding. Davy edition. We ship, M-F by 4 pm, and Sat. by noon, with tracking info. Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: Beloved, profoundly moving account of the author's marriage, the couple's search for faith and friendship with C. S. Lewis, and a spiritual strength that sustained Vanauken after his wife's untimely death. Winner of the National Religious Book Award. A portrait of a marriage and faith as well as of the author's friendship with C. S. Lewis. This book is, in a sense, made up of two distinct parts: the first chronicles the love story of Vanauken and his wife, a love he refers to as pagan. The couple pledged always to put their love before all else, and the intensity of their devotion to one another and their exclusivity makes up the early chapters. However, as Vanauken or "Van" and his wife, Jean Davis or "Davy," explore Christianity and are gradually converted, the primacy of their love for one another comes into question for both of them?though Vanauken's conversion is somewhat slower and more reluctant. His analysis is aided by a correspondence with C.S. Lewis, then an Oxford Don, and some of Lewis's letters are reprinted in the book. Vanauken's circle of Oxford acquaintances includes other recognizable names as well, including Catholic priest Julian Stead, who went on to author books of religious poetry and a noted text on St. Benedict's rule of life. A Severe Mercy is undoubtedly Vanauken's best known and most successful book. A Severe Mercy won a 1980 U.S. National Book Award in the one-year category Religion/Inspiration. The 1985 sequel, Under the Mercy, spans many years after the death of his wife, years during which he first fell away from "the obedience" and then returned and eventually converted to Catholicism. In December 2009 Origin Entertainment obtained the rights to begin writing the screenplay of this story. ?A gem of a book . . . delivers an extraordinary impact on the reader.? New Oxford Review ?A towering and noble work in its own right, wrought by a real craftsman . ..?