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Acedia & me : a marriage, monks, and a writer's life / Kathleen Norris.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781594489969
- ISBN: 1594489963
- Physical Description: 334 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2008.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [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. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Allentown Public Library | 248.86 NORR (Text) | 34455005273640 | Adult Nonfiction 2nd FL | Available | - |
| Bethlehem Main Library | 248.86 (Text) | 33062006801493 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
