Al Alvarez, poet, critic, novelist, sportsman, poker player, has for seventy years been hard to categorize. To many, he is the author of the bestselling study of suicide The Savage God, which not only described his own attempted suicide but also, for the first time and in dramatic detail, outlined the tortured relationship between Ted Hughes and his wife Sylvia Plath. What Alvarez wrote about the events leading up to Plath's suicide caused The Savage God to be the subject of enormous controversy as well as outstanding reviews. Here in his memoirs he finally completes that story.
Contains 16 pages of b/w photographs.