`A Grief Observed' - And Filmed

About five years ago I ran across a reference to C. S. Lewis's book "A Grief Observed," said to be one of the few really helpful books about the first awful stages of bereavement. It went onto that back-of-the-head reading list everybody keeps - you never know when you're going to need such a book - but I never expected to find it on special display in a Dupont Circle bookstore, in a crisp paperback edition, sharing highly visible shelf space with Lewis's spiritual autobiography "Surprised by Joy" and a generous selection of the works of Christian theology that made him famous. "The Problem of...