Acedia & me : : a Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
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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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PUBLISHED
New York : Riverhead Books, 2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 334 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781594489969
1594489963
SUBJECTS
Norris, Kathleen, -- 1947-
Acedia.
Melancholy -- Christianity.
Sadness -- Christianity.
Apathy -- Christianity.
Monastic and religious life.