The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Harmandsworth; England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 143
Copyright date: 1966
Description: <span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><em>The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea</em> 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 lo</span><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"> </span><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"></span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/162332.The_Sailor_Who_Fell_from_Grace_with_the_Sea#" style="color:rgb(0,99,93);text-decoration:none;font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);" rel="nofollow">...more</a>