The Savage God : A Study of Suicide Alpha exploring past civilizations through the

exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them

and after Auschwitz in luminous

tragedy strikes fifteen-year-old Laila

In the summer of 1944

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

The Savage God : A Study of Suicide Alpha exploring past civilizations through theUsing 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