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Book · 1963

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

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Coming of age violence Juvenile nihilism Class rejection Cruel self education Emotional coldness Objectivity as manifesto

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Release
1963

Synopsis

*The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea* tells of a band of savage thirteen-year-old boys who 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 idealize the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. They regard their disappointment in him as an act of betrayal on his part, and react violently.

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