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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Riverhead Books , c2008.Description: 334 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781594489969
Other title:
  • Acedia and me
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 248.86 NOR
LOC classification:
  • BT732.4 .N67 2008
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.
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.
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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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