C.S. Lewis

A. N. Wilson. Ballantine Books, $15 (334pp) ISBN 978-0-449-90609-5

Known details of the Christian apologist's life, a veritable Freudian case history, appear along with fresh insights about his Oxford circle, the Inklings, and his friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien. ``Wilson, though attuned to psychoanalytic theory, avoids reductionist psychobiography in this absorbing, intimate portrait of a secretive figure,'' said PW. Photos. (Aug.)

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