The sailor who fell from grace with the sea / Yukio Mishima ; translated from the Japanese by John Nathan.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Series: Vintage Japanese classicsDescription: 131 pages ; 19 cmISBN: - 9781784875428 (pbk.) :
- Gogo no eikō. English
- F MIS 23
- PL833.I7A2
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Fiction | The Harden Library, King's Hospital | Fiction Section | F MIS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Donated by JK | 30499100000256 |
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This translation originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.
A band of savage 13-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 disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.
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