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This morose little gem boasts its share of sensuous depravity * Wall Street Journal *
Mishima was one of literature's great romantics, a tragedian with a heroic sensibility, an intellectual, an esthete, a man steeped in Western letters who toward the end of his life became a militant Japanese nationalist * New York Times *
Mishima is the Japanese Hemingway * Life Magazine *
A writer of immense energy and ability * Time Out *

A sexually and psychologically complex novel... in a honed translation by Andrew Clare

-- Damian Flanagan * TLS *

The Frolic of the Beasts

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    A Paperback / softback by Yukio Mishima, Andrew Clare

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 04/04/2019
      ISBN13: 9780241386705, 978-0241386705
      ISBN10: 0241386705
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      This morose little gem boasts its share of sensuous depravity * Wall Street Journal *
      Mishima was one of literature's great romantics, a tragedian with a heroic sensibility, an intellectual, an esthete, a man steeped in Western letters who toward the end of his life became a militant Japanese nationalist * New York Times *
      Mishima is the Japanese Hemingway * Life Magazine *
      A writer of immense energy and ability * Time Out *

      A sexually and psychologically complex novel... in a honed translation by Andrew Clare

      -- Damian Flanagan * TLS *

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