Companionship in grief : love and loss in the memoirs of C.S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin /
"In Companionship in Grief, Jeffrey Berman focuses on the most life-changing event for many people--the death of a spouse. Some of the most acclaimed memoirs of the past fifty years offer insights into this profound loss: C.S. Lewis's A Grief Observed; John Bayley's three memoirs abou...
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Table of Contents:
- "The lost other is an ongoing part of our existence"
- C.S. Lewis and Joy Davidman : "Never have I loved her more than since she was struck down"
- John Bayley and Irish Murdoch : "In widowhood you lose not only your loved one but much of yourself"
- Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon : "Art is created against death"
- Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne : "Life changes in the instant"
- Calvin Trillin and Alice Stewart Trillin : "I wrote everything for Alice"
- "It is possible to be bereft and not bereft simultaneously."
