| Description |
334 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
New York Times best sellers.
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New York Times best sellers.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-334). |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Norris, Kathleen, 1947-
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Norris, Kathleen, 1947- |
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Acedia.
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Acedia. |
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Melancholy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Melancholy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Sadness -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Sadness -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Apathy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Monastic and religious life.
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Apathy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Monastic and religious life. |
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Religious life. |
| Added Title |
Acedia and me |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Norris, Kathleen, 1947- Acedia & me. New York : Riverhead Books, 2008 (OCoLC)608869754 |
| ISBN |
9781594489969 |
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1594489963 |
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9781607517504 |
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1607517507 |
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