The sailor who fell from grace with the sea
Mishima, Yukio, 1925-19702019
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A band of savage 13-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. They regard this disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.
Main title:
The sailor who fell from grace with the sea / Yukio Mishima ; translated from the Japanese by John Nathan.
Imprint:
London : Vintage, [2019]
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131 pages ; 19 cm.
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This translation originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.
ISBN:
9781784875428 (pbk)
Dewey class:
FICTION
Language:
EnglishJapanese
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BRN:
2825388
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