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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
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ISBN13: 9780385721271
Publisher: Anchor
Published: Feb 22 2005
Pages: 305
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
Awards: Books for a Better Life
A story about becoming human, being recognized, finally recognizing oneself.... It fills the reader with hope. --The Washington Post Book World
In 1962, at age seventeen, Karen Armstrong entered a convent, eager to meet God. After seven brutally unhappy years as a nun, she left her order to pursue English literature at Oxford. But convent life had profoundly altered her, and coping with the outside world and her expiring faith proved to be excruciating. Her deep solitude and a terrifying illness-diagnosed only years later as epilepsy--marked her forever as an outsider. In her own mind she was a complete failure: as a nun, as an academic, and as a normal woman capable of intimacy. Her future seemed very much in question until she stumbled into comparative theology. What she found, in learning, thinking, and writing about other religions, was the ecstasy and transcendence she had never felt as a nun.
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