false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172301569m/162332.jpg 162332 19 After five years of celibate widowhood, Fusako consummates her two-day relationship with Ryuji, a naval officer convinced of his glorious destiny. However, they are spied on by Fusako's son, Noboru, a member of a sinister elite of precocious schoolboys. Together, they conspire against Ryuji. 880874 book 1963 The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea total:1198|5:371|4:477|3:274|2:60|1:16| 1198 4721 1664 124 5 4 false false Mon Oct 08 23:33:03 -0700 2007 Sat May 31 02:02:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Sun Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 08:19:08 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 13:02:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 2 true false Mon Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 05:51:44 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 06:24:08 -0700 2008 The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea follows the adventures of Noburu a 13 year old boy and his crazy gang of schoolmates, "all smallish, delicate boys and excellent students," who try to oppose their relative powerlessness in the world by developing a dark idealistic "philosop...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 02:00:33 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 01:21:17 -0700 2009
Has there been a book before or since the innocuous sounding The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea that had so much to do with misunderstanding and death? I ...more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Oct 27 03:11:33 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 04 21:23:50 -0800 2008 Like many 20th century Japanese authors, his life is one I would probably do best not to replicate, but his passion for writing is admirable. A little too...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jul 12 15:46:20 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 15:47:14 -0700 2007
He unloads a lot of philosophy in the text but the reader can't trust that that is...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 16:25:29 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 10:22:31 -0700 2009 Lord of the Flies and deals with the relationship between chil...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Fri Apr 25 11:33:37 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 25 11:35:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Apr 18 08:34:23 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 18 08:37:12 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 02:52:27 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 22:38:14 -0700 2009 But, his other main hero Noboru is young boy, 13 yers old (14 at the end) and he is projection of Mishima. Noboru ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 01:41:49 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 19:51:42 -0700 2009 1 Beautifully written,for example I like how he captured teenage boy machismo:
"A large iron anchor withstanding the corrosion of the sea and scornful of the barnacles and oysters that harass the hulls of ships, sinking polished and indiffer...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 21:52:21 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 01:36:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jan 28 23:58:12 -0800 2009 Sun Jun 28 07:28:05 -0700 2009 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea explores the more ominous side of the human psyche. Mishima so vividly paints, with streaks of terrifyingly dark colors, the disillusionment of a group of adolescent boys.

This young group of boys are bent on the cold and calculated destruction...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Dec 24 16:40:45 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 07 20:16:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Sep 15 00:50:30 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 00:50:30 -0700 2007 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is a powerful, disturbing, and strangely beautiful novel about a sailor who knows glory awaits him in some form over some horizon and the young boy who idolizes him as a hero, only to see the sailor fall in love with the boy’s widowed mother and give up ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 15:25:22 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 15:37:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1983 Sat Mar 15 12:45:47 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 12:46:38 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 4 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 08:55:29 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 08:55:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Feb 13 06:57:49 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 07:03:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 20:12:22 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 18:46:19 -0700 2008 saving grace so far has been Mishima's beautiful prose. I found this excerpt in the index and found it really int...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=162332