Mariette in Ecstasy

Mariette in Ecstasy is a 1991 novel written by Ron Hansen. it is set in a convent in New York in 1906. It is defined as a "wonderful and strange novel" and it is "beautifully described".
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.
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. In 2009, it was adapted for the stage and produced at Lifeline Theatre in Chicago. 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.