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"I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer . . . Why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?" Haunted by the myth of Cupid and Psyche throughout his life, C.S. Lewis wrote this, his last, extraordinary novel, to retell their story through the gaze of Psyche's sister, Orual. Disfigured and embittered, Orual loves her younger sister to a fault and suffers deeply when she is sent away to Cupid, the God of the Mountain. Psyche is forbidden to look upon the god's face, but is persuaded by her sister to do so; she is banished for her betrayal. Orual is left alone to grow in power but never in love, to wonder at the silence of the gods. Only at the end of her life, in visions of her lost beloved sister, will she hear an answer. " Till We Have Faces succeeds in presenting with imaginative directness what its author has described elsewhere as 'the divine, magical, terrifying and ecstatic reality in which we all live' . . . It] deepens for adults that sense of wonder and strange truth which delights children in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , Prince Caspian , and other legends of Narnia." -- New York Times "The most significant and triumphant work that Lewis has . . . produced." -- New York Herald TribuneProduct Identifiers
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100156904365
ISBN-139780156904360
eBay Product ID (ePID)65617
Product Key Features
Book TitleTill We Have Faces : a Novel of Cupid and Psyche
TopicFairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Literary, Historical, Fantasy / Historical
Publication Year1980
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorC.S. Lewis
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9in.
Item Length8in.
Item Width5.3in.
Item Weight8.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN79-024272
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Age Range14-Up
Grade fromNinth Grade
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal823/.9/12
Lc Classification NumberPr6023.E926t54
Illustrated byEichenberg, Fritz
Number of Pages320 Pages
