![]() ![]() ![]() In the Foreword, Madeleine L’Engle contrasts her own bereavement following the death of her husband after a long life and marriage with Lewis’s experience of losing his wife at age forty-five, after a short marriage. Each chapter describes a new phase of mourning, as Lewis explores his thoughts and feelingsin unvarnished, deeply personal terms that encompass shock, anger and despair, and finally reach acceptance. Comprised of four chapters, the book chronicles Lewis’s progression through various stages of grief as he struggles to come to terms with the death of his wife. A Grief Observed “is a stark recounting of one man’s studied attempts to come to grips with and in the end defeat the emotional paralysis of the most shattering grief of his life” (XV). ![]()
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