Mariette in Ecstasy (21 page)
R
ON
H
ANSEN’S
books include
Desperadoes, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
, and the short story collection
Nebraska
, for which he received an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
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Praise
for
Mariette in Ecstasy:
“Hansen gives back to the world the complexity and beauty of its existence—those elements of life that make us call it a creation—in a language spare and mysterious enough to capture the ambiguities of devotion and the sensuality of faith.”
—Mirabella
“The sleeper hit of 1991…Hansen writes to inspire awe. And by veiling the inside, he suggests that there may be mysteries greater still, probably even more luscious and strange than what you can see with your bare eyes. Whatever one might think of this as religious instruction, as fiction it is terribly seductive.”
—Village Voice
“Explores the most profound questions of spirituality…with writing so lovely it seems to ring. Open the book anywhere, at random, and the writing takes your breath away.”
—Orlando Sentinel
“Engrossing. Hansen writes a beautiful prose.”
—Newsweek
“None of [Hansen’s] mysteries are neatly resolved—and the biggest one may be the degree to which one finds oneself passionately yearning for the miraculous.”
—The New Yorker
“The shortest novel I have read this year is also the best…. If Mariette is in ecstasy, so is Hansen’s prose, a miracle in itself…. We are spellbound.”
—The Nation
LSO BY
R
ON
H
ANSEN
Desperadoes
The Assassination of Jesse James
by the Coward Robert Ford
Nebraska
For children
The Shadowmaker
MARIETTE IN ECSTASY
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