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

✍ Scribed by Norris, Kathleen, 1947-

Book ID
110518015
Publisher
New York : Riverhead Books
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
427 KB
Category
Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Includes bibliographical references (p. [332]-334);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;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

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