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Becoming Mrs. Lewis

Patti Callahan Henry
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60 pages • 2 hours read

Patti Callahan Henry

Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

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    While the novel concentrates on love and marriage, friendship appears important. How does the novel define and describe friendship?

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    From Dante’s Inferno and Julian of Norwich’s Revelations to Tolkien’s Middle-Earth materials, Becoming Mrs. Lewis includes allusions to other texts. What are the functions of these textual allusions?

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    Family remains one of the foci of Callahan’s novel. How does the novel depict family and its disappointments?

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