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Recognized throughout the world for his brilliance as a novelist and playwright, Yukio Mishima is also noted as a master of the short story in his native Japan, where the form is practiced as a major art.

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"In Death in Midsummer Yukio Mishima unfolds to English-language readers a range of his talents as he explores a variety of pathways into the complex Japanese personality. He can be funny, even hilarious, but he is also capable of plunging into the dark psychic depths achieved by Hitchcock." -- Robert Trumbull - The New York Times Book Review
"When I read a writer such as Mishima I’m not only experiencing a narrative but also dueling with another darkness behind the words. A seemingly empty house haunted with invisible presences obtusely felt, and the tingle of awareness that someone else is in it, watching." -- Benjamin Hale - n+1
"Genius...Yukio Mishima is one of the great writers of the 20th-century. An extraordinary mind." -- The Los Angeles Times

Death in Midsummer

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    A Paperback / softback by Yukio Mishima

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      Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
      Publication Date: 01/02/1966
      ISBN13: 9780811201179, 978-0811201179
      ISBN10: 0811201171

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Recognized throughout the world for his brilliance as a novelist and playwright, Yukio Mishima is also noted as a master of the short story in his native Japan, where the form is practiced as a major art.

      Trade Review
      "In Death in Midsummer Yukio Mishima unfolds to English-language readers a range of his talents as he explores a variety of pathways into the complex Japanese personality. He can be funny, even hilarious, but he is also capable of plunging into the dark psychic depths achieved by Hitchcock." -- Robert Trumbull - The New York Times Book Review
      "When I read a writer such as Mishima I’m not only experiencing a narrative but also dueling with another darkness behind the words. A seemingly empty house haunted with invisible presences obtusely felt, and the tingle of awareness that someone else is in it, watching." -- Benjamin Hale - n+1
      "Genius...Yukio Mishima is one of the great writers of the 20th-century. An extraordinary mind." -- The Los Angeles Times

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