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Chargement... A Yard From Hell: Samuel Marsden Flogging Parsonpar Doug Buckley
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When writer Doug Buckley's town, Sydney, staged Alex Buzo's play Macquarie, the Reverend Samuel Marsden was kitted out throughout with a long black stock-whip in his belt. Indeed, enunciate Samuel Marsden to a Sydneysider and the comeback, even by Christians, will be The Flogging Parson. This offensive label was attached generations after Marsden's death by lesser men who never knew him. Yet does it convey serious truth? Who indeed was the diminutive, larger-than-life senior chaplain to the brutal British convict colony of New South Wales? Why has he been named Apostle to New Zealand? Novelist Doug Buckley retells the story of this versatile and innovative pastor but with a difference, he seeks to write as Sam himself might have written. "Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell. I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell." C T Studd Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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A captivating beginning. The author must have had fun writing it.
The phrasing is very appropriate, as you might imagine him speaking back in the 1800's.
A very fitting ending, with Samuel giving a sermon on Christmas day to a mixed crowd in Bay of Islands, New Zealand.
Knowing the author, I can hear his voice as he speaks for Samuel Marsden, saying things I can imagine him saying. He especially had fun with the chapter names.
Typographically it would be gentler on the eyes to have 'italics' rather than 'underlining'. ( )