The Savage God : A Study of Suicide Alpha Jamie and Charlotte are looking

Jamie and Charlotte are looking for a winter break reprieve in Sussex after a fall semester that almost got them killed

hoping for undisturbed days devoted to artistic absorption

In a hotel room in Bangalore

Dante Scott still has nightmares about the death of his family

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

The Savage God : A Study of Suicide Alpha Jamie and Charlotte are lookingUsing 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