MARIETTE IN ECSTASY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - This novel about a beautiful 17 year old postulate in a 1906 upstate New York convent who begins to bleed from stigmata raises provocative questions about the nature of faith. It 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, placed surface of everyday life." SIGNED on the title page. 179 pp. ISBN: 0-060182148.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 33786
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