The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
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.
- Request Code
- ZLIBIO567506
- Published
- 1970
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Pages
- 143
- Language
- English
- Format
- Edition
- New impression
- ISBN-13
- 9780140028669
- ISBN-10
- 0140028668