The Tangled Miracle
Published on 16. December 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-988784-81-6 (ISBN)
Description
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).
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 126 mm
Width: 203 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-988784-81-6 (9781988784816)
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Bertram Brooker (1888-1955) was one of Canada's first abstract painters. A self-taught polymath, in addition to being a visual artist, Brooker was a Governor General's Award-winning novelist, as well as a poet, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, copywriter, graphic designer, and advertising executive.
Gregory Betts is a Canadian poet, editor, and professor at Brock University with a speciality in Canadian and avant-garde literature. The author of seven books of poetry and nine books of experimental writing, he also edited and contributed the introduction for The Wrong World: Bertram Brooker's Stories and Essays (2009).
Gregory Betts is a Canadian poet, editor, and professor at Brock University with a speciality in Canadian and avant-garde literature. The author of seven books of poetry and nine books of experimental writing, he also edited and contributed the introduction for The Wrong World: Bertram Brooker's Stories and Essays (2009).