The spiral staircase
Subtitle: my climb out of darkness
By: Karen Armstrong
Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed.
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780385721271
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Ex-nuns; Biography; Karen Armstrong
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 2004.
Table of contents: title: T.S. Eliot, Ash-Wednesday, I -- xxi -- 1; title: Ash Wednesday -- 3 -- 2; title: The Devil of the Stairs -- 46 -- 3; title: I Renounce the Blessed Face -- 78 -- 4; title: Consequently I Rejoice -- 120 -- 5; title: Desiring This Man's Gift and That Man's Scope -- 159 -- 6; title: The Usual Reign -- 192 -- 7; title: Infirm Glory -- 224 -- 8; title: To Turn Again-- 264.