After moving with his wife and two children to a small holding in Ireland, Kingsnorth expects to find contentment.
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?.
Informed by his experiences with indigenous peoples, the writings of D.
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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.
It is the goal he has sought -- to nest, to find home -- after years of rootlessness as an environmental activist and author. * Chicago Tribune Fall literary preview: books you need to read now * Vulture The Best and Biggest Books to Read This Fall * The Guardian A best book of 2019 After moving with his wife and two children to a smallholding in Ireland, Paul Kingsnorth expects to find contentment.
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.
After moving with his wife and two children to a small holding in Ireland, Kingsnorth expects to find contentment
