Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-334)

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contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Acedia & me

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

212847707

Responsibility statement

Kathleen Norris

Sub title

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

Table Of 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

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Acedia and me

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