The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Vintage International)

by Yukio Mishima (Author), John Nathan (Translator)

• New

  Paperback
  1994

  $14.60

• New

  Paperback
  1999

  $11.51

  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.