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Book Review of Mariette in Ecstasy

Mariette in Ecstasy
Mariette in Ecstasy
Author: Ron Hansen
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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Helpful Score: 1


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 hands, feet and side, the entire community is thrown into turmoil. Is Mariette a cunning sham, or sexualy hystarical, or does God stalk her like a pitiless lover? .....