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

By: Norris, Kathleen, 1947-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2008Description: 334 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781594489969 (trade); 1594489963.Other title: Acedia and me.Subject(s): Acedia | Melancholy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Sadness -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Apathy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Monastic and religious life | Norris, Kathleen, 1947- | Acedia | Melancholy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Sadness -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Apathy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Monasticism and religious orders | Norris, Kathleen, 1947-DDC classification: 818/.5403
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.
Summary: Examines acedia--apathy--in twenty-first century society, and discusses the author's struggles with her own feelings of acedia, which originated during her teenage years, and also those of her husband's.
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Examines acedia--apathy--in twenty-first century society, and discusses the author's struggles with her own feelings of acedia, which originated during her teenage years, and also those of her husband's.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [332]-334).

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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