Mariette in Ecstasy
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| Author | Ron Hansen |
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| Subject | Catholic Church, religious ecstasy |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | E. Burlingame Books/HarperCollins |
Publication date | 1991 |
| Pages | 179 |
| ISBN | 9780060182144 |
Mariette in Ecstasy is a 1991 novel written by Ron Hansen.[1] it is set in a convent in New York in 1906.[2] It is defined as a "wonderful and strange novel" and it is "beautifully described".[3]
In 1992, it received the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal in Fiction and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association 1992 Award in Fiction.[4]
In 1996, it was set to be adapted into a film but it was never released because the production company and intended distributor, Savoy Pictures, who was co-producing the film with Price Entertainment and Rastar, went bankrupt.[5][6] In 2009, it was adapted for the stage and produced at Lifeline Theatre in Chicago.[7] In 2019, the film was shown for the first time at the Camerimage International Film Festival by director John Bailey, during a retrospective of his career.
