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Original Title:	A Severe Mercy
ISBN:	0060688246 (ISBN13: 9780060688240)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Award for Religion/Inspiration (Paperback) (1980), ECPA Christian Book Award for Biography/Autobiography (1978)

A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

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Title	:	A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph
Author	:	Sheldon Vanauken
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	May 26th 2009 by HarperOne (first published January 1st 1977)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Christian. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. Religion. Christianity

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A heart-rending love story described by its author as “the spiritual autobiography of a love rather than of the lovers” about the author’s marriage and search for faith.

 

Vanauken chronicles the birth of a powerful pagan love borne out of the relationship he shares with his wife, Davy, and describes the growth of their relationship and the dreams that they share.


A beloved, profoundly moving account of the author's marriage, the couple's search for faith and friendship with C. S. Lewis, and a spiritual strength that sustained Vanauken after his wife's untimely death. Replete with 18 letters from C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy addresses some of the universal questions that surround faith--the existence of God and the reasons behind tragedy.

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Beautifully recorded journey of a man's relationship with God strengthened through the grief of losing his wife.

Favorite memoir of all time, and the most recommendable book.

This book is a beautiful love story, speaking to what love truly is. Sheldon and Davy are simple but also unique, adventurous but also traditional. There story is full and good and Sheldon writes of it beautifully. This book hit hard emotionally. Sheldon writes of feelings and thoughts so eloquently and honestly in a way I connected with deeply. I felt as though I was experiencing and learning with him! A quote that I particularly loved and I think captures the book: At all events, joy flowered

Linda wrote: "I'm 2/3 of the way through the audiobook, and I came here to see if there were any others who felt rather negatively toward this book.



A Severe Mercy can almost be called a foreshadowing of A Grief Observed. But of course that is only from our perspective looking back on the four lives involved. Sheldon Vanauken wrote A Severe Mercy about the love of his life, Jean "Davy" Palmer Davis. It's a beautiful love story, one of the most idyllic I've ever read, perhaps too idyllic, but poignant and breathtaking all the same. The book traces their relationship from courtship through the early pagan (the author's term) years of marriage

The first half plus of the book I found enchanting and enriching. It was eye-opening to me as an on-looker at the beauty of relationships between man and woman, of the mystery of Gods drawing grace and penetration of skepticism (with some real kickers from Lewis about the threshold or leap of faithsee pg. 88). There is true depth and a special resonance with much of Vanaukens musings for me, such as his thoughts of beauty. It seems to strike a human tonemany things in his book. After Davys