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The Sacred Hoop
In this allegorical treatment of man's changing relationship with the earth through the centuries, stories illustrated with contemporary art or artifacts capture those historical moments in which man's relationship with the natural world underwent radical change
252 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1982
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About the author
Bill Broder
27 books2 followersBill Broder was born and brought up in Detroit. He graduated from Columbia College, served in the Navy, and wrote and taught writing as a Teaching Assistant under Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft at Stanford.
His latest novel, TAKING CARE OF CLEO, appeared in 2006. It was chosen as one of six fiction finalists in the Great Lakes Book Awards and was one of twenty books from all categories chosen as a Notable Book of 2007 by the Michigan Library Foundation.
Broder has published two other books of fiction: THE SACRED HOOP, Sierra Club Books (1979 and paperback 1992); REMEMBER THIS TIME, written with his wife, Gloria Kurian Broder, Newmarket Press, 1983. He received a Marin Arts Council Grant for TAKING CARE OF CLEO as a novel-in-progress.
He is currently working on a Trilogy of novels, THE THANKSGIVING TRILOGY, spanning five decades of Bay Area history. Broder has also acted as member, Executive Director and Artistic Director of a playwrights workshop, CALIFORNIA ON STAGE, and has completed a number of full-length plays. ABALONE! was produced in Carmel, California. His other plays have received staged readings in the Bay Area by Equity actors at the Upstart Stage, The Plays in Progress Series at A.C.T., The Western Stage Theater Company, the New Playwrights Festival, and New Visions Festival. Two of his plays were presented as staged readings at The Second and Third Annual California Studies Conference in Sacramento, California.
Broder has worked extensively as a free-lance writer, specializing in the writing, design, and production of educational materials for museums, schools, exhibitions, and publishing companies. Broder worked with Gordon Ashby and his associates on the Coyote Point Museum of Environmental Education, The St. Supery Winery, and The Oakland Museum. He wrote the tour for the 150th Anniversary Exhibit of the Gold Rush at the Oakland Museum. He also wrote, edited, and helped design four annual publications of the Sierra Club Almanac (poetry, images, natural facts, and experiments) for Young People (Scribners).
His latest novel, TAKING CARE OF CLEO, appeared in 2006. It was chosen as one of six fiction finalists in the Great Lakes Book Awards and was one of twenty books from all categories chosen as a Notable Book of 2007 by the Michigan Library Foundation.
Broder has published two other books of fiction: THE SACRED HOOP, Sierra Club Books (1979 and paperback 1992); REMEMBER THIS TIME, written with his wife, Gloria Kurian Broder, Newmarket Press, 1983. He received a Marin Arts Council Grant for TAKING CARE OF CLEO as a novel-in-progress.
He is currently working on a Trilogy of novels, THE THANKSGIVING TRILOGY, spanning five decades of Bay Area history. Broder has also acted as member, Executive Director and Artistic Director of a playwrights workshop, CALIFORNIA ON STAGE, and has completed a number of full-length plays. ABALONE! was produced in Carmel, California. His other plays have received staged readings in the Bay Area by Equity actors at the Upstart Stage, The Plays in Progress Series at A.C.T., The Western Stage Theater Company, the New Playwrights Festival, and New Visions Festival. Two of his plays were presented as staged readings at The Second and Third Annual California Studies Conference in Sacramento, California.
Broder has worked extensively as a free-lance writer, specializing in the writing, design, and production of educational materials for museums, schools, exhibitions, and publishing companies. Broder worked with Gordon Ashby and his associates on the Coyote Point Museum of Environmental Education, The St. Supery Winery, and The Oakland Museum. He wrote the tour for the 150th Anniversary Exhibit of the Gold Rush at the Oakland Museum. He also wrote, edited, and helped design four annual publications of the Sierra Club Almanac (poetry, images, natural facts, and experiments) for Young People (Scribners).
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January 3, 2023
I liked this book, but it wasn't particularly riveting. More of a slow read. I did love creeping through time, vignette by vignette, and my anthropologist soul greatly appreciated the thoughtful research that went into it. It is also connected to The Sierra Club somehow? Intriguing. Its connection to the land was interesting, but could have been stronger. I don't want to demean this book at all, but this feels like a project I'd love to embark on and emulate, imagining what it means to move through history and all its conceptions of the land and our relationships with it.
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