# The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea

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- Book: [The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea](https://www.bookquiver.com/yukio-mishima/the-sailor-who-fell-from-grace-with-the-sea) ([The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/yukio-mishima/the-sailor-who-fell-from-grace-with-the-sea.md))
- Authors: [Yukio Mishima](https://www.bookquiver.com/yukio-mishima)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 0-099-28479-0
- Published: 1999-01-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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; 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.