Norris, Kathleen,  1947- <br/><br/>
Acedia & me :  a marriage, monks, and a writer's life / 
 Acedia and me 
Kathleen Norris. 
 - New York :  Riverhead Books,  2008. 
 - 334 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [332]-334). 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781594489969 1594489963 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008010150 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Norris, Kathleen, 1947- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Acedia.<br/>Melancholy--Religious aspects--Christianity.<br/>Sadness--Religious aspects--Christianity.<br/>Apathy--Religious aspects--Christianity.<br/>Monastic and religious life.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BT732.4  / .N67 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>818/.5403  B