| The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea Contributor(s): Mishima, Yukio (Author), Nathan, John (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0679750150 ISBN-13: 9780679750154 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1994 Annotation: A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys who reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity.' |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 93042218 |
| Lexile Measure: 950 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.25" W x 8.08" (0.45 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Yukio Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea explores the vicious nature of youth that is sometimes mistaken for innocence. 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, adult life is illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental. When Noboru's widowed mother is romanced by Ryuji, a sailor, Noboru is thrilled. He idolizes this rugged man of the sea as a hero. But his admiration soon turns to hatred, as Ryuji forsakes life onboard the ship for marriage, rejecting everything Noboru holds sacred. Upset and appalled, he and his friends respond to this apparent betrayal with a terrible ferocity. |