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Yukio Mishima
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Runaway Horses |
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English |
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Paperback |
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432 |
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1990-04-14 |
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0679722408 |
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Vintage |
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0.8 pounds |
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0.7 x 5.15 x 8.0 inches |
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Reissue |
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ALSO KNOWN AS: Homba (Japanese Edition). SYNOPSIS: In Runaway Horses, the second novel in The Sea of Fertility tetralogy, a passionate young crusader leads a band of assassins in the cause of a sacred past. Born in Tokyo in 1925, Kimitake Hiraoka - better known by his pen name, Yukio Mishima - became a three-time Novel Prize nominee and the outstanding Japanese writer of his generation. In his short career, he produced hundreds of novels, plays, stories, and essays before ending his life spectacularly in a sensational public protest and ritual suicide in 1970. The Sea of Fertility, his four-novel epic, is widely considered his crowning achievement, and has been called "his masterpiece . . . his testament to the world." - Saturday Review. - and - THE BOOK A complete and totally enthralling novel in itself, Runaway Horses is the second book in The Sea of Fertility tetralogy, a work of cosmic scope and poignant human drama that charts, with satirical verve and resonant feeling, the progress of a soul through several incarnations. THE AUTHOR Yukio Mishima is one of Japan's most celebrated novelists. He has been compared to Proust, Gide, Sartre, and Hemingway. A highly disciplined and extremely prolific writer, he was, as well, an actor, expert in the martial arts, and commander of his own private army. THE ACCLAIM Said the Chicago Daily News, "Mishima is superb in capturing the delicacies of the human heart."
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