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Bertram Brooker won the country's first Governor General's Award
for literature in 1936 for his novel "Think of the Earth," and his
explosive, experimental paintings hang in every major gallery in
the country. He was Canada's first multidisciplinary avantgardist,
successfully experimenting in literature, visual arts, film, and
theatre. Brooker brought all of his experimental ambitions to his
short fiction and prose. "The Wrong World" presents a rich sampling
of his prose work, much of it previously unpublished, which adds
new insight into his aesthetic ambitions.
A first-rate detective novel that explores media's manipulation of a gullible public. A cult leader announces a miracle will take place and she will rise to heaven. A medium prophesies the date, publicity gets to work, and all of America hums with anticipation. On the appointed day, she disappears and scientist Mortimer Hood, there to verify the miracle, must investigate how-and whether-the whole thing is a hoax, or if the priestess has been murdered. Originally published in 1936, this edition features a new introduction by poet and academic Gregory Betts (editor of The Wrong World: Bertram Brooker's Stories and Essays).
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