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010 _a2008010150
020 _a9781594489969
050 0 0 _aBT732.4
_b.N67 2008
082 0 0 _a248.86 NOR
100 1 _aNorris, Kathleen
_d, 1947-
245 1 0 _aAcedia & me
_b: a marriage, monks, and a writer's life
_c/ Kathleen Norris
246 3 _aAcedia and me
260 _aNew York
_b: Riverhead Books
_c, c2008.
300 _a334 p.
_c; 23 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [332]-334).
505 0 _aSomewhere -- 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.
520 _aKathleen 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.
600 1 0 _aNorris, Kathleen
_d, 1947-
650 0 _aAcedia
650 0 _aMelancholy
_x--Religious aspects
_x--Christianity
650 _aSadness
_x-Religious aspects
_x-Christianity
650 4 _aMonastic & religious life
942 _cMO
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