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Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir Of Spiritual Discovery
Through the Narrow Gate A Memoir Of Spiritual Discovery
Author: Karen Armstrong
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780676977097
ISBN-10: 067697709X
Publication Date: 2005
Pages: 368
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Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Book Type: Paperback
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I found Karen Armstrong very interesting on C-Span talks, but found this biography a little hard going, but a good reflection on her early years.
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This book was very compelling and I found it hard to put down. I was very interested to find out the reasons why someone would want to become a nun and then later change her mind. I found the author to be very honest about these years and her decisions.


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