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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

By Yukio Mishima

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
1970
ISBN
0140028668, 9780140028669
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1781080 bytes)
Edition
New impression
Pages
143\143
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

A band of savage thirteen-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 disallusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.

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