The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea (Vintage Classics)
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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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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.
Title: The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea (Vintage Classics)
Author: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780099284796
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Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Date: 1999-03-11
Number of Pages: 144
Weight: 0.1407 kg
Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century * The Times *
Explores the viciousness that lies beneath what we imagine to be innocence * Independent *
Told with Mishima's fierce attention to naturalistic detail, the grisly tale becomes painfully convincing and yields a richness of psychological and mythic truth * Sunday Times *
Coolly exact with his characters and their honourable motives. His aim is to make the destruction of the sailor by his love seem as inevitable as the ocean * Guardian *
Mishima's imagery is as artful as a Japanese flower arrangement * New York Times *
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