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

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.

• Format:
  • Paperback / softback
  • 144 pages
• Publisher:Vintage Publishing
• Imprint:Vintage Classics
• ISBN:9781784874230
• Published:11 Mar 1999
• Weight:108g
• Dimensions:197 x 129 x 12 (mm)
• Pub. Country:United Kingdom