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Acedia & me : a marriage, monks, and a writer's life  Cover Image Book Book

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

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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  • ISBN: 1594489963
  • ISBN: 9781594489969
  • Physical Description: 334 pages ; 24 cm
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  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2008.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-334).
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Subject: Norris, Kathleen 1947-
Acedia
Melancholy Religious aspects Christianity
Sadness Religious aspects Christianity
Apathy Religious aspects Christianity
Monastic and religious life

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