Memories this Fragrance May Conjure Sitting by the fireplace with someone you once fancied, an austere wood-paneled library, your first sip of expensive whiskey.
Memories this Fragrance May Create A quiet night at home with a tipple and a brand new book, a raucous night out with old friends, a spontaneous late-night purchase of a satin smoking jacket.
SYNOPSIS: The early exploration writing of Philip Sava bent the limits of post-modern fiction, revealing fantastical worlds that fooled many into believing they were, in fact, real. Sava’s kaleidoscopic collections, of which Memoirs of a Trespasser is the undeniable centerpiece, drew upon true experiences from his exotic travels but were infused with a hallucinatory inventiveness that set his work apart from others in the genre.
Though Sava had associates all over the world, he spent most of his time living in solitude on a ranch in southern Madagascar. When interrogated by the press on his cloistered lifestyle he notoriously answered, “Who needs love when there is still cognac in the glass?”
