Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Life in and Out of the Convent - Softcover
Available in Canada for the first time since its initial publication in 1981, this is acclaimed author Karen Armstrong's classic memoir of her life as a young woman in a convent -- the precursor to the bestseller The Spiral Staircase. Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong's intimate memoir of life inside a Catholic convent. With honesty and clarity, she explains what drove her at age seventeen to devote herself to God. Over the next seven years, she endures the difficulties of convent life -- the enforced silence, the lack of friendship and family, her own guilt at not being able to stifle her voracious intelligence -- and unveils the secrets of religious life during the post-Vatican II years. Through the Narrow Gate is a moving account of a young woman's search for God and the experiences that put Karen Armstrong on her way to becoming one of the most admired and most respected interpreters of religious faith.
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"The most full and honest book that I've read on this subject."
--Mary McCarthy, author of Memories of a Catholic Girlhood "A scrupulous record of one woman's spiritual journey, excellently written and profoundly moving."
--Cosmopolitan "An emotive, spiritually intimate, and often quite moving memoir ... written with affection, some humour, and bittersweet regret."
--Kirkus Reviews Praise for Karen Armstrong:
"Karen Armstrong is a genius."
--A. N. Wilson, author of Jesus: A Life "Armstrong has a dazzling ability: she can take a long and complex subject and reduce it to the fundamentals, without oversimplifying."
--The Sunday Times "Armstrong is a lucid writer with a knack for synthesizing vast quantities of research. Formidable learning and a clear analytical eye."
--The Globe and Mail
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--Mary McCarthy, author of Memories of a Catholic Girlhood "A scrupulous record of one woman's spiritual journey, excellently written and profoundly moving."
--Cosmopolitan "An emotive, spiritually intimate, and often quite moving memoir ... written with affection, some humour, and bittersweet regret."
--Kirkus Reviews Praise for Karen Armstrong:
"Karen Armstrong is a genius."
--A. N. Wilson, author of Jesus: A Life "Armstrong has a dazzling ability: she can take a long and complex subject and reduce it to the fundamentals, without oversimplifying."
--The Sunday Times "Armstrong is a lucid writer with a knack for synthesizing vast quantities of research. Formidable learning and a clear analytical eye."
--The Globe and Mail
Since leaving her religious order in 1969, Karen Armstrong has become one of the world's foremost commentators on religious affairs. Her bestselling books include The Spiral Staircase, The History of God, Islam and The Battle for God. Karen Armstrong lives in London.
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- PublisherVintage Books Canada
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 067697709X
- ISBN 13 9780676977097
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Life In and Out of the Convent
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