Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Norris, Kathleen, 1947-

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

Publication Info. New York : Riverhead Books, [2008]
©2008

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  248.86 N794    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  248.86 NOR    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  248.8 NORRIS    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  818 NOR    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  248.8 N    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  248.8 NORRIS    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  248.86 NOR    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  248.8 NORRIS    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  248 NORRIS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  248.86 N791    Check Shelf

Description 334 pages ; 24 cm
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 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
-->
Add a Review