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Title	:	Mariette in Ecstasy
Author	:	Ron Hansen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 180 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1991 by Harper Perennial
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Religion. Spirituality. Novels. Literature. Literary Fiction

Mariette in Ecstasy

Ron Hansen

Paperback | Pages: 180 pages

Rating: 3.73 | 2365 Users | 272 Reviews

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The highly acclaimed and provocatively rendered story of a young postulant's claim to divine possession and religious ecstasy.

In 1906, a beautiful seventeen year old postulant enters the convent of the Sisters of the Crucifixion in upstate New York. When she begins to bleed from her hands, feet, and side, the entire community is thrown into turmoil. Is Mariette a cunning sham, or sexually hysterical, or does God stalk her like a pitiless lover?

Mariette in Ecstasy is a stunning immersion into the society of a small convent at the turn of the century, where a mysterious and ultimately harrowing world lies beneath the lovely, placid surface of everyday life. With Mariette In Ecstasy, critically acclaimed author Ron Hansen again powerfully demonstrates his gift for brilliantly recreating time and place. As intriguing as The Name Of The Rose, as sensually hypnotic as Marguerite Duras' The Lover, this is an intimate portrait of a fascinating young woman in the grip of an intractable fate, and it raises provocative questions about the complex nature of passionate faith.

Exquisitely crafted, Mariette in Ecstasy is a spellbinding novel that marks a new level of achievement in one of our most gifted writers.

~ from 1991 hardcover dustjacket

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Original Title:	Mariette in Ecstasy
ISBN:	0060981180 (ISBN13: 9780060981181)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	California Book Award for Fiction (Silver) (1991)

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One and a half stars for this book which does an incredible job of hiding bricks under hats. The choppy, telegraphic writing "style" (inverted commas intended) makes it seem more like an aborted screenplay; in fact I first thought that was what it was. The book resonates heavily with other, earlier works by other authors: think The Nun's Story (from which two scenes are lifted, practically entire), think Agnes of God, think Extramuros, and certainly many phrases, events and even names taken from

I'm reading the six "reviews" below and shaking my head in absolute disbelief--"intriguing" and "well-written" are not terms that you can apply to this thin slice of prose disguised as a novel. There is very little narrative flow to this book as it is written as a sequence of short bursts of unrelated information almost like a draft outline a writer would use to help guide him to write a work of more complexity. But if you wanted to allow for this format being the "novel" idea, then what is

A few weeks ago I was walking on my street and came upon a book sale on a neighbor's stoop. It was surprising what they were unloading -- not the usual unpopular, unloved cast offs but stuff you'd actually heard of and would want to own -- and all at a gleeful, hands-rubbing-together 25 cents a pop. Crazy.Impressed with the collection, I got to talking about books with the neighbors, a couple who were moving to the west coast where they are both planning to pursue PhDs in lit. A few minutes into

It's 1906. A young woman enters a convent to join the sisterhood. Despite this being a short novel, I found it a slow and challenging book to read. Each sentence is rich in imagery, the language and word choice is unique and vivid. As a visually oriented person, I found myself sitting and lingering over the words, unpacking the meanings and how they created pictures in my mind. The storytelling is complicated, rich in detail, but changing situationally suddenly throughout. Human nature is

This book lays out the experience of Stigmata for us to view and question, it is on one level a story of great religious inspiration (if you are a believer) and on the other hand, it raises all the questions of the sceptics and doubters.Mariette is a nineteen-year-old girl who enters the local convent where her blood sister, 20 years her senior is mother superior. Mariette has been brought up to be extremely religious and devout and entering the convent seems to her to be the most natural and

This short novel rests on the readers attitude toward and perception of mystical religious experiences. In 1906, in an inconsequential cloistered community of nuns, a young postulant arrives claiming ecstatic trances and religious locutions. In the months that follow, these become more dramatic, including the stigmata. But are these genuine mystical phenomenon? Or are they self-induced injuries, are they psychosomatic manifestations of some form of hysteria? The question is left to each reader

I can't say I've liked Mr. Hansen's other work so much, but this book rings with a lyricism that is rare, so perhaps one novel of this caliber in a person's lifetime is enough. Some passages read like poetry, and there is an intimacy in the tone that draws the reader in. Please don't think you wouldn't want to read a book about nuns! Give it a chance and you'll likely be happy you did.