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Mishima, Yukio: The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea

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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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Category: Books > Foreign Language Books > Books in English >
Publisher: Vintage, 1994
Item number / ISBN: 9780679750154
Binding: paperback
Page count: 181
Item language: English