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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'. They regard this disallusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.

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Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century * The Times *
Explores the viciousness that lies beneath what we imagine to be innocence * Independent *
Told with Mishima's fierce attention to naturalistic detail, the grisly tale becomes painfully convincing and yields a richness of psychological and mythic truth * Sunday Times *
Coolly exact with his characters and their honourable motives. His aim is to make the destruction of the sailor by his love seem as inevitable as the ocean * Guardian *
Mishima's imagery is as artful as a Japanese flower arrangement * New York Times *

The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: 11/03/1999
      ISBN13: 9780099284796, 978-0099284796
      ISBN10: 0099284790
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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'. They regard this disallusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.

      Trade Review
      Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century * The Times *
      Explores the viciousness that lies beneath what we imagine to be innocence * Independent *
      Told with Mishima's fierce attention to naturalistic detail, the grisly tale becomes painfully convincing and yields a richness of psychological and mythic truth * Sunday Times *
      Coolly exact with his characters and their honourable motives. His aim is to make the destruction of the sailor by his love seem as inevitable as the ocean * Guardian *
      Mishima's imagery is as artful as a Japanese flower arrangement * New York Times *

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