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Acedia & me

A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life

by Kathleen Norris · 2008

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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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