num_pages: 181
description: This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750154The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea tells the tale 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 "objectivity." 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.
language: English
title: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
titlecomplete: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
characters: Ryuji Tsukazaki, Noboru Kuroda, Fusako Kuroda
genres: Classics, Asian Literature, Japan, Asia, Novels, Japanese Literature, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 37761
places: Yokohama, Japan
publisher: Vintage