Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Type

Book

Authors

Yukio Mishima

ISBN 10

0099284790

ISBN 13

9780099284796

Tags

Classics, Literary

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. - from Amzon

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