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Life for Sale (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780525565147)
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x"A propulsive, madcap story" (The New York Times) about a salaryman who decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper after a botched suicide attempt. - "An outstanding writer not only of Japan, but of the world." --The Atlantic
After salaryman Hanio Yamada puts his life up for sale, interested parties quickly come calling with increasingly bizarre requests. What follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled heiress, poisoned carrots--even a vampire. For someone who just wants to die, Hanio can't seem to catch a break, as he finds himself enmeshed in a continent-wide conspiracy that puts him in the cross hairs of both his own government and a powerful organized-crime syndicate. By turns wildly inventive, darkly comedic, and deeply surreal, in Life for Sale Yukio Mishima stunningly uses satire to explore the same dark themes that preoccupied him throughout his lifetime.
Author: Yukio Mishima
ISBN-10: 0525565140
ISBN-13: 9780525565147
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 04/07/2020
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/18/2019
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2020
Shelf Awareness 05/05/2020
After salaryman Hanio Yamada puts his life up for sale, interested parties quickly come calling with increasingly bizarre requests. What follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled heiress, poisoned carrots--even a vampire. For someone who just wants to die, Hanio can't seem to catch a break, as he finds himself enmeshed in a continent-wide conspiracy that puts him in the cross hairs of both his own government and a powerful organized-crime syndicate. By turns wildly inventive, darkly comedic, and deeply surreal, in Life for Sale Yukio Mishima stunningly uses satire to explore the same dark themes that preoccupied him throughout his lifetime.
Author: Yukio Mishima
ISBN-10: 0525565140
ISBN-13: 9780525565147
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 04/07/2020
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/18/2019
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2020
Shelf Awareness 05/05/2020
By Yukio Mishima
xYUKIO MISHIMA was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University's School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944, and he established himself as a major author with Confessions of a Mask (1949). From then until his death, he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, The Sea of Fertility tetralogy--which contains the novels Spring Snow (1969), Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970), and The Decay of the Angel (1971)--is considered one of the definitive works of twentieth-century Japanese fiction. In 1970, at the age of forty-five and the day after completing the last novel in the Fertility series, Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide)--a spectacular death that attracted worldwide attention.
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