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  The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Vintage Classics) (Paperback) By (author) Yukio Mishima

  

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  Short Description for The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the SeaA band of savage 13-year-old boys reject the adult world as hypocritical and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness. 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.
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 01 December 2009
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Fiction In Translation
  • ISBN 13: 9780099284796 ISBN 10: 0099284790
  • Sales rank: 18,614

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Full description for The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

• 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.