TY  - BOOK
AU  - Armstrong,Karen
TI  - The spiral staircase: my climb out of darkness 
SN  - 0385721277 (pbk.)
AV  - BX4668.3.A75 A3 2005
U1  - 200/.92 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Anchor Books
KW  - Armstrong, Karen,
KW  - Ex-nuns
KW  - Biography
N1  - Originally published: New York : A. A. Knopf, 2004; 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random055/2003047550.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0413/2003047550.html
ER  -