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Acedia & me : a marriage, monks, and a writer's life

Acedia & me : a marriage, monks, and a writer's life

Norris, Kathleen, 1947-
Book 2008

Kathleen Norris's masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture.

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ISBN:
9781594489969
Description:
334 pages
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references
Contents:
Somewhere
Tedium
From eight bad thoughts to seven sins
Psyche, soul, and muse
Up and down
Give me a word
Acedia's progress
Acedia's decline
A silent despair
The quotidian mysteries
The "noon" of midlife
Day by day
And to the end arriving
A widow's uneasy afterword
Acedia: a commonplace book
LCCN:
2008010150
Control Number:
164757
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