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Life for sale / Yukio Mishima ; translated from the Japanese by Stephen Dodd.
Van Pelt Library PL833.I7 I513 2020
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Inochi urimasu. English
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 188 pages 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 2020.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970. Life for sale
- ISBN:
- 9780525565147
- 0525565140
- OCLC:
- 1111652669
- Publisher Number:
- 99984226508
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