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The author relates her decision to leave her convent after failing to find religious fulfillment, her struggles with depression and epilepsy, her realization of her calling, and her career working with sacred texts.
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Ex-nuns, Biography, Religion, Faith development, Christian biography, Ex-religieuses, Biographies, Godsdienstwetenschap, Nonnen, Biographies spirituelles, Depressies (psychiatrie), Epilepsie, Armstrong, Karen, 1944-, Faith, Religious life, Glaubensentwicklung, Identitätsentwicklung, Nuns, biography, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Women, biography, Great britain, biographyPlaces
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The spiral staircase: my climb out of darkness
2005, Anchor Books
in English
- 1st Anchor Books ed.
0385721277 9780385721271
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Table of Contents
T.S. Eliot, Ash-Wednesday, I -- xxi -- 1
Ash Wednesday -- 3 -- 2
The Devil of the Stairs -- 46 -- 3
I Renounce the Blessed Face -- 78 -- 4
Consequently I Rejoice -- 120 -- 5
Desiring This Man's Gift and That Man's Scope -- 159 -- 6
The Usual Reign -- 192 -- 7
Infirm Glory -- 224 -- 8
To Turn Again-- 264.
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Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 2004.
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