Bertram Brooker (1888–1955)
Autor de Think of the Earth
Sobre El Autor
Bertram Brooker was born in Croydon, England on March 31, 1888. He moved with his parents to Portage la Prairie in 1905 and then moved to Toronto in 1921. He acquired a reputation as a writer, painter, musician, and poet. He was a charter member of the Canadian Group of Painters. He wrote several mostrar más books including three books about advertising, Tangled Miracle, and The Robber. He won the Governor General's Award for fiction in 1936 for Think of the Earth. He died on March 22, 1955. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Bertram Brooker
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Brooker, Bertram Richard
- Otros nombres
- Surrey, Richard W.
Hearne, Huxley - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1888-03-31
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1955-03-22
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK (birth)
Canada - Lugares de residencia
- Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Ocupaciones
- writer
painter
musician
advertising
newspaper editor - Organizaciones
- Royal Canadian Engineers
- Biografía breve
- First author to receive the Governor General's Award. Is regarded as the first Canadian abstract impressionist.
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Miembros
- 38
- Popularidad
- #383,442
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 6
Think of the Earth is about a man, a wanderer, who feels a deep tie with Christ although they live continents and centuries apart. In fact, he becomes caught in a web of over-identifying with him and is convinced he is meant to become a sacrifice of the sort that relieves people of the guilt they carry around with them. It is this that gives his life fulfillment until he meets a preacher's daughter and feels the stirrings of love for another in his heart.
The reason I liked this novel so much was that it went overboard where religion was concerned and then pulled itself back. Nowadays a person doesn't read novels that deal with Christianity and heretical opinions unless they are in the religions aisle in a big book store or in a Christian media store looking at nonfiction. The book surprised me for where the philosophy went and where it ultimately ended up. It was a nice change. Eight out of ten bookmarks.
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