"The lost other is an ongoing part of our existence"
C.S. Lewis and Joy Davidman : "Never have I loved her more than since she was struck down"
John Bayley and Irish Murdoch : "In widowhood you lose not only your loved one but much of yourself"
Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon : "Art is created against death"
Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne : "Life changes in the instant"
Calvin Trillin and Alice Stewart Trillin : "I wrote everything for Alice"
"It is possible to be bereft and not bereft simultaneously."
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Companionship in grief : love and loss in the memoirs of C.S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin by Jeffrey Berman. ISBN 9781558498037. Published by University of Massachusetts Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
