false 57614918 641883 17267 0006280560 9780006280569 911 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166805741m/17267.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166805741s/17267.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17267.The_Great_Divorce 4.21 7433 The Great Divorce is C.S. Lewis's Divine Comedy: the narrator bears strong resemblance to Lewis (by way of Dante); his Virgil is the fantasy writer George MacDonald; and upon boarding a bus in a nondescript neighborhood, the narrator is taken to Heaven and Hell. The book's primary message is presented with almost oblique tidiness--"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'" However, the narrator's descriptions of sin and temptation will hit quite close to home for many readers. Lewis has a genius for describing the intricacies of vanity and self-deception, and this book is tremendously persistent in forcing its reader to consider the ultimate consequences of everyday pettiness. --Michael Joseph Gross ]]> 1069006 4.06 372651 21364 1946 5 0 false Fri Aug 28 11:03:29 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 09:06:58 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 11:03:29 -0700 2009