Overview
First serialized in Playboy Japan, a stylish, pulp narrative about a failed suicide attempt and the absurd adventures of a young man with nothing to live for 'Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will cause no bother at all.' When Hanio Yamada realizes the future holds nothing of worth to him, he puts his life for sale in a Tokyo newspaper, thus unleashing a series of unimaginable exploits. A world of revenge, murderous mobsters, hidden cameras, a vampire woman, poisonous carrots, espionage and code-breaking, a junkie heiress, home-made explosives and decoys reveals itself to the unwitting Hanio. Is there anything he can do to stop it?
Full Product Details
Author: Yukio Mishima ,
Stephen Dodd
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Dimensions:
Width: 12.80cm
, Height: 1.10cm
, Length: 19.70cm
Weight: 0.146kg
ISBN: 9780241333150
ISBN 10: 0241333156
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 04 February 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Language: English
Reviews
A writer of immense energy and ability * Time Out * An engaging all-action satire * The Guardian * Succeeds in capturing vividly the bathos of the self-pitying modern nihilist... the absurdity of life is conveyed through the tropes of pulp fiction and manga comics * The New Statesman * There is a place in life for the exhilarating, surreal and sometimes downright silly. This novel ticks all the boxes * Spectator * It's funny and horrific and curious and thoroughly entertaining and should win Mishima a new generation of fans * The Independent * Yields a rare glimpse of the pulp-fiction flipside that partnered the rhapsodic and mystical Mishima... grotesque, melodramatic, spectacular, utterly silly * The Times *
Yields a rare glimpse of the pulp-fiction flipside that partnered the rhapsodic and mystical Mishima... grotesque, melodramatic, spectacular, utterly silly * The Times * It's funny and horrific and curious and thoroughly entertaining and should win Mishima a new generation of fans * The Independent * There is a place in life for the exhilarating, surreal and sometimes downright silly. This novel ticks all the boxes * Spectator * Succeeds in capturing vividly the bathos of the self-pitying modern nihilist... the absurdity of life is conveyed through the tropes of pulp fiction and manga comics * The New Statesman * An engaging all-action satire * The Guardian * A writer of immense energy and ability * Time Out *
Author Information
Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 in Tokyo, and is considered one of Japan's most important writers. His books broke social boundaries and taboos at a time when Japan found itself in a state of rapid social change. His interests, besides writing, included body-building, acting and practising as a Samurai. In 1970 he attempted to start a military coup, which failed. Upon realizing this, Mishima performed seppuku, a ritual suicide, upon himself. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature three times.
