| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780393306576 | | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 30057746 | | Item#: RL9YF3 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7.5H x 5L x 0.75T |
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| | | The aims of this fascinating, compassionate book are broadly cultural and literary, though the narrative is rooted in personal experience. "To write a book about suicide . . . to transform the subject into something beautiful--this is the forbidding task that Alvarez set for himself. . . . He has succeeded".-- The New York Times.
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Noted poet and critic A. Alvarez's THE SAVAGE GOD is a nuanced and philosophical investigation of the history and nature of suicide. Alvarez is particularly interested in the long relationship between artists and suicide, and he uses both his own suicide attempt and the suicide of his close friend Sylvia Plath as two primary case studies in his book.
| Author Bio| A. Alvarez | | An outsider since birth--a sickly British Jew with a Spanish last name--A. Alvarez grew up to become a chameleonic writer whose writing embraces the dangerous fringes of life, an aesthetic implanted in him as he watched the lethal beauty of the Battle of Britain as a child. Alvarez made his name in the literary world as a poet and poetry critic. As poetry editor for the Observer he championed the work of Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, and John Berryman, and his now-classic anthology, THE NEW POETRY (1966), ushered in a radical new age in British poetry. Since then Alvarez has written one of the quintessential books on suicide (THE SAVAGE GOD) and on poker (THE BIGGEST GAME IN TOWN). |
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