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Description
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;... read more
Summary
Teenage boy watches widowed mother sleep with handsome sailor through hole in bedroom wall. Boy becomes disillusioned with handsome sailor when he chooses his mother over life on the sea and begins plotting revenge.
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“Do you remember that day on the pier when I said there was only one way to make him a hero again… Well, the time has come.”
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Authors & Contributors
- Yukio Mishima (Author)
- John Nathan
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