TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mishima,Yukio
AU  - Nathan,John
TI  - The sailor who fell from grace with the sea
T2  - Vintage Japanese classics
SN  - 9781784875428 (pbk.) :
AV  - PL833.I7A2 
U1  - F MIS 23
KW  - Teenage boys
KW  - Japan
KW  - Fiction
N1  - This translation originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965
N2  - 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
ER  -