The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
$26.94
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
31 May 1994
Summary
A shocking tale about a violent group of teenage boys and the dangers of disillusionment from three-time Nobel Prize nominee Yukio Mishima.
A novel from “one of the outstanding writers of the world” (The New York Times) that explores the vicious nature of youth that is sometimes mistaken for innocence.
“A major work of art.” - Time
Thirteen-year-old Noboru is a member of a gang of highly philosophical teenage boys who reject the tenets of the adult world - to them, adu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679750154 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679750150 |
| Author: | Yukio Mishima, John Nathan |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 31 May 1994 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Vintage International |
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Critics Review
“Brilliant in the conciseness of its narrative.”
—The Nation
“A major work of art.”
—Time
“Mishima is like Stendhal in his precise psychological analyses, like Dostoevsky in his explorations of darkly destructive personalities.”
—Christian Science Monitor
About The Author
Yukio Mishima
YUKIO MISHIMA was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 and he established himself as a major author with Confessions of a Mask (1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, The Sea of Fertility tetralogy-which contains the novels Spring Snow (1969), Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970), and The Decay of the Angel (1971)-is considered one of the definitive works of twentieth century Japanese fiction. In 1970, at the age of 45 and the day after completing the last novel in the Fertility series, Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide)-a spectacular death that attracted worldwide attention.
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