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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Vintage International) Book

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9780679750154 : 0679750150 : 01 Jun 1994 : Yukio Mishimaâ??s The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea explores the vicious nature of youth that is sometimes mistaken for innocence.   Thirteen-year-old Noboru is a member of a gang of highly philosophical teenage boys who reject the tenets of the adult world â?? to them, adult life is illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental. When Noboruâ??s widowed mother is romanced by Ryuji, a sailor, Noboru is thrilled. He idolizes this rugged man of the sea as a hero. But his admiration soon turns to hatred...Read More

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  • Product 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.

  • 0679750150
  • 9780679750154
  • Y Mishima
  • 31 December 1994
  • Vintage Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 192
  • 1st Vintage International Ed
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