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

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

Summary

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.

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 ... Read more
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334 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher
Riverhead Books 2008

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 248.862 NOR in Adult Non-fiction Available
Interlochen Public LIbrary Relation Norris in Adult Non-fiction Available

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