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01157aam a2200253 a 4500 001 AAEB3446376B11E1999191C06AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20120105010528 008 050407s2004 nyu b 000 0aeng d 020 $a 0385721277 020 $a 9780385721271 (pbk.) : 040 $a RGP $c RGP $d SILO $d SILO 082 04 $a 200.92 100 1 $a Armstrong, Karen, $d 1944- $9 26875 245 1 $a The spiral staircase : $b my climb out of darkness / $c Karen Armstrong. 260 $a New York : $b Anchor Books, $c c2004. 300 $a xxii, 305 p. ; $c 21 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a 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. 600 10 $a Armstrong, Karen, $d 1944- $9 26876 650 0 $a Ex-nuns $v Biography. $9 26877 941 $a 1 952 $l AXPF626 $d 20120105013019.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AAEB3446376B11E1999191C06AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search