The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima Hardback Book 9781784879723

A beautiful hardback edition of the great Japanese classicMishimas greatest novel and one of the greatest of the past century The TimesA band of savage thirteenyearold boys reject the adult world as illusory hypocritical and sentimental and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call objectivityWhen the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ships 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 romanticThey regard this disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his part and the retribution is deliberate and horrifyingA tale of youth and warped masculinity rediscover the suspenseful and deeply ominous classic with this special editionVintage Quarterbound Classics Bound to be beautiful