The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Book description
A band of savage 13-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…
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1 author picked The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a great novel about the romance of drifting and the danger (and perhaps also the necessity) of trying to bring your drifting to an end. The story "The Hate Room" in this collection is partly an homage to Mishima's delicate balance of beauty and brutality, as well as my own time in Japan (although it was nothing like that of the characters in the story!).
From David's list on being a drifter or solitary wanderer at large.
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