The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Verlag | Random House UK |
Auflage | 1999 |
Seiten | 192 |
Format | 13 x 19,5 x 1,3 cm |
Gewicht | 138 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | Vintage Classics |
ISBN-10 | 0099284790 |
EAN | 9780099284796 |
Bestell-Nr | 09928479EA |
'A major work of art' Time
Klappentext:
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.
Rezension:
"Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century" The Times