Acedia & me : a marriage, monks, and a writer's life / Kathleen Norris
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Riverhead Books , c2008.Description: 334 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781594489969
- Acedia and me
- 248.86 NOR
- BT732.4 .N67 2008
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Libro - Monografía | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. | 248.86 NOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 015341 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [332]-334).
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.
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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