In this absorbing coming-of-age memoir by the author of Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
and Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith,
Norris appeals to every reader's struggle to achieve adulthood, both personally and professionally. She tells of...
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Kathleen Norris, Author . Riverhead $25.95 (334p) ISBN 978-1-59448-996-9
In this penetrating theological memoir, Norris (The Cloister Walk
) details her relationship with acedia, a slothful, soul-weary indifference long recognized by monastics. Norris is careful to distinguish acedia from its cousin, depression, noting...
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Kathleen Norris, Author University of Pittsburgh Press $14 (79p) ISBN 978-0-8229-5556-6
Norris, whose poetry collections include The Middle of the World, reached a wide audience with her prose memoir Dakota, A Spiritual Geography. Readers of that book will recognize here her closely considered relationship with the prairie; her...
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Kathleen Norris, Author Riverhead Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-57322-078-1
When poet Norris (The Cloister Walk) found her way back into church in the early 1980s, she was unsettled by what she calls the ""vaguely threatening and dauntingly abstract"" vocabulary of the church. Many of the words, like ""Christ,"" seemed to...
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Kathleen Norris, Author Riverhead Hardcover $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57322-028-6
The allure of the monastic life baffles most lay people, but in her second book Norris (Dakota) goes far in explaining it. The author, raised Protestant, has been a Benedictine oblate, or lay associate, for 10 years, and has lived at a Benedictine...
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Kathleen Norris, Author Mariner Books $13 (224p) ISBN 978-0-395-71091-3
A native of South Dakota, Norris maps the cultural and spiritual landscape of life on the High Plains. (Sept.)
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Kathleen Norris, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-395-63320-5
Nearly 20 years ago, poet Kathleen Norris and her husband moved from New York to the isolated town of Lemmon in northwestern South Dakota, home of her grandparents. Living there radically changed her sense of time and place, forcing her to come to...
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Kathleen Norris, Author University of Pittsburgh Press $25 (79p) ISBN 978-0-8229-3875-0
Norris, whose poetry collections include The Middle of the World, reached a wide audience with her prose memoir Dakota, A Spiritual Geography. Readers of that book will recognize here her closely considered relationship with the prairie; her...
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Kathleen Norris, Author, Kathleen Norris, Read by , read by the author. Penguin Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-314371-0
Norris's magnificent spiritual memoir of acedia (a complex cousin of depression) gets an uneven audio treatment. At times, Norris's straightforward and monotonous delivery doesn't do justice to the aching beauty of her prose. However,
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Kathleen Norris, Author, Sandra Burr, Read by , read by Sandra Burr. Brilliance $27.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58788-421-4
Thirty-five years ago, poet Norris (The Cloister Walk), the studious daughter of a schoolteacher and professional musician, left her sheltered upbringing in Honolulu Navy housing, ill-prepared for life at wildly liberal Bennington College. Though...
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Kathleen Norris, Author, Tomie dePaola, Illustrator , illus. by Tomie dePaola. Putnam $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23424-8
Poet, feminist and Benedictine oblate Norris (The Cloister Walk) turns to the sixth-century twins Benedict and Scholastica for this informative dual biography. In easily accessible language and a straightforward tone, she describes the twins'...
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Scott Walker, Author, Terry Tempest Williams, Author, Kathleen Norris, Author Graywolf Press $12 (290p) ISBN 978-1-55597-202-8
Collected from a diverse range of sources, including Parabola and The New Yorker, these essays offer some insight and grace, but the organizing principle of community is a bit diffuse. Some of the more abstruse essays are academic, like Tim Luke's...
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