The Spiral Staircase. A Memoir

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2004
Edition: First Edition

Description: 342 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. Karen Armstrong Spent Seven Years As A Roman Catholic Nun In The 1960s, But Left Her Teaching Order In1969.

Publishers Description: 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 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. Gripping, revelatory, and inspirational, The Spiral Staircase is an extraordinary account of an astonishing spiritual journey.

ISBN: 9780007122288