{"title":"All","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"oranges","title":"Savage Gods","description":"\u003cp class=\"Standard\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0f1111;\"\u003eSigned by the author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Standard\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0f1111;\"\u003eFirst published in 2019, and now republished in a new edition with a new introduction by the author, \u003cem\u003eSavage Gods\u003c\/em\u003e is Paul's unique, spiritual semi-memoir.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0f1111;\"\u003e A search for home, a quest for the meaning of words and an inward battle about the value and purpose of writing, it is unlike anything Paul has ever written before, or probably ever will again.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Textbody\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0f1111;\"\u003eInformed by his experiences with indigenous peoples, the writings of D.H. Lawrence, Annie Dillard, W. B Yeats and others, the myths and gods of pre-modern cultures, and the day-to-day travails of farming his own land, \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eSavage Gods \u003c\/i\u003easks: 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?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Standard\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0f1111;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The most incredible book I read this year. This is a writer - and a writer that burns -\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0f1111;\"\u003eattempting to cure himself of writing, on the page, and it leads to some profound, and just as often jaw-dropping, insights.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Standard\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0f1111;\"\u003eDavid Keenan, The Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0f1111;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Standard\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0f1111;\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eA furiously gifted writer.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Standard\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0f1111;\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Standard\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0f1111;\"\u003e“There are few writers as raw or brave on the page. 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