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Bibliographic Detail
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings | Death in Midsummer and Other Stories | Confessions of a Mask | The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea | Runaway Horses | The Temple of Dawn | The Decay of the Angel | Spring Snow | The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings | Death in Midsummer and Other Stories | Confessions of a Mask | The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea | Runaway Horses | The Temple of Dawn | The Decay of the Angel | Spring Snow | The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
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At forty-five, Yukio Mishima was the outstanding Japanese writer of his generation, celebrated both at home and abroad for The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. In 1970 he startled the world by stepping out onto a balcony in Tokyo before an assembly of troops and plunging a sword into his abdomen; a disciple then beheaded him, completing the ritual of hara-kiri. John Nathan's riveting biography traces the life of this tortured, nearly superhuman personality. Mishima survived a grotesque childhood, and subsequently his sadomasochistic impulses became manifestâas did an increasing obsession with death as the supreme beauty. Nathan, who knew Mishima professionally and personally, interviewed family, colleagues, and friends to unmask the variousâoften seemingly contradictoryâpersonae of the genius who felt called by "a glittering destiny no ordinary man would be permitted."
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