The Savage God A Study of Suicide Author:A. Alvarez 1,000 people take their own lives each day... Sylvia Plath was one of them. Beginning with the poignant and penetrating account of the young author/poet's suicide, and closing with the harrowing personal story of his own experience with self-destruction, here is A. Alvarez's fascinating and provocative study, which helps to explain why so many o... more »f our most creative people choose death.
Do suicide parents beget suicide children? Does suicide come as an early psychological injunction? Do we learn about self-death as we learn to love: from our earliest, most intimate associations? The Savage God examines the strange history, myths, literature, psychology and technology of self-destruction. It is, at once, a deeply moving memoir and an intimate look at life, death and individualism in our time.« less