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Mariette in Ecstasy is a 1991 novel written by Ron Hansen. it is set in a convent in New York in 1906. It is defined as a "wonderful and strange novel" and it is "beautifully described".
- Ron Hansen
- 1991
Jan 1, 1992 · Paperback – January 1, 1992. The highly acclaimed and provocatively rendered story of a young postulant's claim to divine possession and religious ecstasy. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.
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- Ron Hansen
- $13
- Harper Perennial
Nov 22, 2016 · Mariette in Ecstasy is a prose-poetic novel about a young girl who joins a convent and experiences the stigmata of Christ. The novel explores the intersection of the sacred and the sexual, the pious and the secular, in a style that combines material specificity and ambiguous emotion.
Jan 1, 2001 · Mariette in Ecstasy is the story of a young woman that is so devoted and God-fearing that she wants desires needs to become a nun, but alleged visions of Jesus and miracles of his favours split the convent in two: the nuns who believe and those that want her out.
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- Paperback
- Ron Hansen
Oct 23, 1991 · Mariette Baptiste is a 17-year-old postulant seeking to join the Sisters of the Crucifixion, a 200-year-old order with its motherhouse in Louvain, Belgium. The narrative covers the six months of Mariette's stay at the priory.
- Ron Hansen
Jan 1, 1991 · Mariette in Ecstasy. Hardcover – Unabridged, January 1, 1991. Set in an upstate New York convent in 1906, this novel depicts the drama of a seventeen-year-old postulant who discovers unexplainable wounds on her body that many believe are of miraculous origin.
- Ron Hansen
Jun 5, 1992 · A novel about convent life at the turn of the century? Hardly the makings of a page-turner, yet Ron Hansen's Mariette in Ecstasy is a gripping, even life-changing book.
- Ron Hansen