{"product_id":"out-of-my-bone-the-letters-of-joy-davidman-9780802878250","title":"Out of My Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe untold story of the woman who married C. S. Lewis and inspired the movie\u003cem\u003eShadowlands\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When Joy Davidman died of cancer in 1960, C. S. Lewis, her husband of only four years, wrote one of the great twentieth-century classics about loss and grief. Who was the American woman about whom Lewis says in \u003cem\u003eA Grief Observed\u003c\/em\u003e, \"It is incredible how much happiness, even how much gaiety, we sometimes had together after all hope was gone\"? Who was this woman whose love story with Lewis became the play, and later the major movie, \u003cem\u003eShadowlands\u003c\/em\u003e?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Although best known as Lewis's wife, Joy Davidman was an accomplished writer in her own right, with several published works to her credit. \u003cem\u003eOut of My Bone\u003c\/em\u003e tells Davidman's life story in her own words through her numerous letters -- most never published before -- and her autobiographical essay \"The Longest Way Round.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Gathered and expertly introduced by Don W. King, these letters reveal Davidman's persistent search for truth, her curious, incisive mind (\"lithe and quick and muscular as a leopard,\" Lewis later said), and her arresting, sharply penetrating voice. They chronicle her journey from secular Judaism to atheism to Communism to Christianity and offer insightful glimpses into life -- both literary and everyday -- in the America and England of her time. Davidman also writes about the struggles of her earlier marriage to William Lindsay Gresham and of trying to reconcile her career goals with her life as mother of two sons. Most poignantly, perhaps, these letters expose Davidman's mental, emotional, and spiritual state as she confronted the cancer that eventually took her life at age 45.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Moving and riveting, \u003cem\u003eOut of My Bone\u003c\/em\u003e reveals anew the singular woman whom C. S. Lewis deeply loved and who deeply influenced his later writings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-10843637\"\u003eDon W. King\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 426\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.96d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802878250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802878253\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO007000\"\u003eLiterary Figures\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LCO\"\u003eLiterary Collections\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LCO011000\"\u003eLetters\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO018000\"\u003eReligious\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42657713815789,"sku":"9780802878250","price":40.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_64e8c25a-7e96-46a6-838c-fa1a65581dad.jpg?v=1649316610","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/out-of-my-bone-the-letters-of-joy-davidman-9780802878250","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}