The Savage God : A Study of Suicide Alpha hoping for undisturbed days devoted

hoping for undisturbed days devoted to artistic absorption

In the summer of 1944

Having spent the past two years in hiding following a daring and successful heist

Then his brother is murdered in San Diego and all the signs point to Reeve heading towards the same fate

The Savage God : A Study of Suicide Alpha hoping for undisturbed days devotedUsing the untimely death of the poet and friend, Sylvia Plath, as a point of departure, Al Alvarez confronts the controversial and often taboo area of human suicide. "The Savage God" explores the cultural attitudes, theories, truths and fallacies surrounding suicide and refracts them through the windows of philosophy, art and following the black thread leading from Dante, through Donne, Chatterton and the Romantic Agony, to Dada and Pavese. Entwined