The Spiral Staircase
My Climb out of Darkness
New York : Anchor Books, 2005.
Format: Book
Edition: First Anchor Books edition.
Description: xxii, 305 pages ; 21 cm
The author relates her decision to leave her convent after failing to find religious fulfillment, her struggles with depression and epilepsy, her realization of her calling, and her career working with sacred texts.
Contents:
T. S. Eliot, Ash-Wednesday, I xxi -- 1 Ash Wednesday 3 -- 2 The Devil of the Stairs 46 -- 3 I Renounce the Blessed Face 78 -- 4 Consequently I Rejoice 120 -- 5 Desiring This Man's Gift and That Man's Scope 159 -- 6 The Usual Reign 192 -- 7 Infirm Glory 224 -- 8 To Turn Again 264.
ISBN:
0385721277 (pbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Armstrong, Karen | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
BIOGRAPHY Armstrong, Karen | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
Originally published: New York : A. A. Knopf, 2004.