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Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima (2020, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100525565140
ISBN-139780525565147
eBay Product ID (ePID)14038426343
Product Key Features
Book TitleLife for Sale
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2020
TopicPsychological, Classics, Absurdist, Linguistics / General
GenreFiction, Language Arts & Disciplines
AuthorYukio Mishima
Book SeriesVintage International Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight7 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2019-032426
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"This dark, funny social satire feels like something only Mishima could've written. . . . A slapstick comedy with a complex moral underpinning, and an intriguing departure from his introspective work. . . . Mishima's pungent insights into the challenges of postwar Japanese life are threaded brilliantly throughout." -- Publishers Weekly "An eccentric satire. . . . [An] offbeat, sardonic yarn about self-commodification and its discontents." -- Kirkus Reviews, "A propulsive, madcap story. . . . It's the book's looseness and weirdness that provide its appeal." -- The New York Times "[A] big deal . . . the first English translation of a piece of engaging pulp fiction . . . by one of [Japan's] literary greats. . . . This surreal tale offers a trenchant critique of a city that has misplaced its soul." -- The Guardian "Funny and horrific and curious and thoroughly entertaining. . . . [ Life for Sale ] should win Mishima a new generation of fans." -- The Independent "A sexy, camp delight. Beneath the hard-boiled dialogue and the gangster high jinks is a familiar indictment of consumerist Japan and a romantic yearning for the past. . . . Life for Sale is replete with Tarantino-like scenes of smuggling and murder, as well as philosophical musings on Japanese attitudes to the sword, the warrior and honour." -- Evening Standard "This dark, funny social satire feels like something only Mishima could've written. . . . A slapstick comedy with a complex moral underpinning, and an intriguing departure from his introspective work. . . . Pungent insights into the challenges of postwar Japanese life are threaded brilliantly throughout." -- Publishers Weekly "Exhilarating, surreal." -- The Spectator "Wildly funny." --The Millions "A terrific example of Mishima's fecund imagination at its most free-wheeling and unfettered best, teeming with complex ideas about the paradoxical nature of existence, delivered with trademark panache and a winking smile. . . . Wildly comedic and filled with picaresque flights of fancy. . . . There's more than a touch of James Bond about Life for Sale ." -- The Japan Times, "This dark, funny social satire feels like something only Mishima could've written. . . . A slapstick comedy with a complex moral underpinning, and an intriguing departure from his introspective work. . . . Mishima's pungent insights into the challenges of postwar Japanese life are threaded brilliantly throughout." -- Publishers Weekly
Dewey Decimal895.635
SynopsisA darkly funny cult classic of a novel from one of Japan's most revered authors, available in English for the very first time. A Vintage Original. After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper. But what begins as mere nihilism takes a turn for the unexpected as interested parties 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 caught up in a continent-wide conspiracy that puts him in the cross hairs of both his own government and a powerful organized-crime cartel. Wildly inventive, darkly comedic, and at times deeply surreal, Life For Sale is refreshingly unlike anything else in Yukio Mishima's oeuvre, and an essential work of international literature, finally available in English., "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., "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.
LC Classification NumberPL833.I7I513 2020
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