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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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Religious aspects of Sadness, Spiritual Development, Melancholy, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Apathy, Apathy, Christianity, Monasticism, Spirituality, Sadness, Religious aspects of Melancholy, Monastic and religious life, Acedia, Religious life, Acedia in literature, Christian biography, Monasticism and religious orders, nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2008-10-05, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Authors, biography, Deadly sins, EmotionsPeople
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Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
March 2, 2010, Riverhead Trade
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Acedia & me: a marriage, monks, and a writer's life
2008, Riverhead Books
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1594489963 9781594489969
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{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Somewhere'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Tedium'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'From eight bad thoughts to seven sins'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Psyche, soul, and muse'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Up and down'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Give me a word'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': "Acedia's progress"}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': "Acedia's decline"}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'A silent despair'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'The quotidian mysteries'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'The "noon" of midlife'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Day by day'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'And to the end arriving'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': "A widow's uneasy afterword"}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Acedia: a commonplace book.'}
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