Description: A lavishly praised bestseller through seven printings and 35,000 copies in print, Mariette in Ecstasy is the provocatively rendered story of a young postulant's claim to divine possession and religious ecstasy. "There's more to this book than breathtaking descriptions; there's also a cliffhanger of a story".--New York Times Book Review.

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Reviews: "Brilliant."-- Chicago Tribune

"Extraordinary." -- Newsday

"A writer who takes your breath away." -- Detroit News

"Precise, passionate and remarkably compelling" --Seattle Times

"A luminous novel that burns a laser-bright picture into the reader's imagination, forcing one to reassess the relationship between madness and divine possession, gullibility and faith, sexual rapture and religious ecstasy.. an astonishingly deft and provocative novel." -- New York Times