C.S. Lewis
A Biography
by A. N. Wilson
ISBN: 0449906094
ISBN-13: 9780449906095
Format: Paperback
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published date: 1991
Size: 6 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 1.15 pounds
Pages: 334
Publisher's Notes
"An accomplished biography...Wilson is a very clever, fluent, and engaging writer, with many of the traits that he attributes to his subject: a 'constantly intelligent conversational quality,' 'a flair for the quick, sharp character sketch, and a 'bedrock of common sense.'"THE NEW REPUBLICA.N. Wilson shows in this brilliant new biography, that C.S. Lewis, the man, was every bit as multifaceted as C.S. Lewis the writer. Gregerious friend, bullying debater, heavy drinker, and smoker. A man whose relationships with women boggled even those closest to him. C.S. Lewis was all of these things, and A.N. Wilson has succeeded, as no previous biographer has done, in bringing this generous, passionate, opinonated, deeply troubled, and marvelously gifted man to life.A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
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Wilson, A. N
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Wilson, A. N
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Wilson, A. N
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Wilson, A. N
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Wilson, A. N
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