{"product_id":"9780547843704","title":"Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first full biography of Joy Davidman brings her out from C. S. Lewis’s shadow, where she has long been hidden, to reveal a powerful writer and thinker.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Joy Davidman is known, if she is known at all, as the wife of C. S. Lewis. Their marriage was immortalized in the film \u003ci\u003eShadowlands\u003c\/i\u003e and Lewis’s memoir, \u003ci\u003eA Grief Observed\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A poet and radical, Davidman was a frequent contributor to the communist vehicle \u003ci\u003eNew Masses \u003c\/i\u003eand an active member of New York literary circles in the 1930s and 40s. After growing up Jewish in the Bronx, she was an atheist, then a practitioner of Dianetics; she converted to Christianity after experiencing a moment of transcendent grace. A mother, a novelist, a vibrant and difficult and intelligent woman, she set off for England in 1952, determined to captivate the man whose work had changed her life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Davidman became the intellectual and spiritual partner Lewis never expected but cherished. She helped him refine his autobiography, \u003ci\u003eSurprised by Joy,\u003c\/i\u003e and to write his novel\u003ci\u003e Till We Have Faces.\u003c\/i\u003e Their relationship—begun when Joy wrote to Lewis as a religious guide—grew from a dialogue about faith, writing, and poetry into a deep friendship and a timeless love story.\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123780862192,"sku":"9780547843704","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547843704_p0.jpg?v=1763716868","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547843704","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}