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An edition of Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life (2008)

Acedia & me

a marriage, monks, and a writer's life

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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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Riverhead Books
Language
English
Pages
334

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Subjects

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, Emotions

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Kathleen Norris (1947-)
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Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
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Acedia & me: a marriage, monks, and a writer's life
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. ).

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New York
Other Titles
Acedia and me

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Dewey Decimal Class
818/.5403, B
Library of Congress
BT732.4 .N67 2008, BT732.4.N67 2008

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
334

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OL16698525M
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acediamemarriage00norr
ISBN 13
9781594489969
LCCN
2008010150
OCLC/WorldCat
212847707
Library Thing
5361111
Goodreads
3329064

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