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Author Norris, Kathleen, 1947-

Title Acedia & me : a marriage, monks, and a writer's life / Kathleen Norris.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Riverhead Books, 2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  248.862 Nor    ---  Available
Description 334 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [332]-334).
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 Acedia.
Melancholy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Sadness -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Apathy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Monastic and religious life.
Norris, Kathleen, 1947-
Added Title Acedia and me
ISBN 9781594489969
1594489963

 
    
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