- Fiction, Nuns, Ecstasy, Convents
The highly acclaimed and provocatively rendered story of a young postulant's claim to divine possession and religious ecstasy.
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Grave, intimate, classical in form and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Ron Hansen
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 179
- Publisher
- E. Burlingame Books, HarperCollins Publishers, Picador
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060981204
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“Half-moon and a wrack of gray clouds.”
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