The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
"The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea" tells of a band of savage thirteen-year-old boys who reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'ojectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's...
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"The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea" tells of a band of savage thirteen-year-old boys who reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'ojectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealize the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. They regard their disappointment in him as an act of betrayal on his part and react violently.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679750154 (0679750150)
Publish date: May 31st 1994
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 181
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Japan,
Japanese Literature
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