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"A poignant, honest portrait of a crisis of faith, not in God or Self but a far rarer thing, a crisis of belief in words themselves, the very materials of the writer’s mind." - Jay Griffiths, author of Wild
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Savage Gods
a book by Paul Kingsnorth
September 17, 2019 | 9781937512859 | 147 pages | Gate-fold
"What ultimately makes Savage Gods a success is Kingsnorth’s passion. His honest probing of himself is the real strength of this book. He is a man bearing everything. And for all the confessional memoirs so popular at the moment, this is the real deal." -The American Conservative
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"An enigma of a book, Savage Gods takes a long hard look at the creative process of writing as well as deep, philosophical questions of purpose, place, and belonging... Purposefully meandering, deeply personal, and playfully existential, Savage Gods asks page after page, 'What the hell is the point of all of this?' Kingsnorth doesn’t provide easy answers, but he has written an essential companion to anyone who creates or takes pen to paper."
—Caleb Masters, Bookmarks (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
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Synopsis: After moving with his wife and two children to a smallholding in Ireland, Paul Kingsnorth expects to find contentment. It is the goal he has sought — to nest, to find home — after years of rootlessness as an environmental activist and author. Instead he finds that his tools as a writer are failing him, calling into question his foundational beliefs about language and setting him at odds with culture itself.
Informed by his experiences with indigenous peoples, the writings of D.H. Lawrence and Annie Dillard, and the day-to-day travails of farming his own land, Savage Gods asks: what does it mean to belong? What sacrifices must be made in order to truly inhabit a life? And can words ever paint the truth of the world — or are they part of the great lie which is killing it?
Read more about the book here.
Read a DRC at Edelweiss here.
Request an ARC here.
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Paul Kingsnorth is the author of Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist, Beast and The Wake, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project, a global network of writers, artists, and thinkers in search of new stories for a world on the brink.
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