Acedia & me
a marriage, monks, and a writer's life
By Kathleen Norris
"Acedia & me" is published by Riverhead Books in 2008 - New York, it has 334 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Acedia & me” Metadata:
- Title: Acedia & me
- Author: Kathleen Norris
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 334
- Publisher: Riverhead Books
- Publish Date: 2008
- Publish Location: New York
“Acedia & me” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Religious aspects of Sadness - Spiritual Development - Melancholy - Religious aspects - Religious aspects of Apathy - Apathy - Christianity - Monasticism - Spirituality - Sadness - Religious aspects of Melancholy - Monastic and religious life - Acedia - Religious life - Acedia in literature - Christian biography - Monasticism and religious orders - nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2008-10-05 - New York Times bestseller - New York Times reviewed - Authors, biography - Deadly sins - Emotions
- People: Kathleen Norris (1947-)
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: p. cm.
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL16698525M - OL1838504W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 212847707
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2008010150
- ISBN-13: 9781594489969
- All ISBNs: 9781594489969
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"Acedia & me" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Somewhere
- 2- Tedium
- 3- From eight bad thoughts to seven sins
- 4- Psyche, soul, and muse
- 5- Up and down
- 6- Give me a word
- 7- Acedia's progress
- 8- Acedia's decline
- 9- A silent despair
- 10- The quotidian mysteries
- 11- The "noon" of midlife
- 12- Day by day
- 13- And to the end arriving
- 14- A widow's uneasy afterword
- 15- Acedia: a commonplace book.
"Acedia & me" Description:
The Open Library:
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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