Compactness and Contradiction

A Band Of Savage Thirteen-year-old Boys 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 Idealise The Man At First; But It Is Not Long Before They Conclude That He Is In Fact Soft And Romantic. They Regard This Disallusionment As An Act Of Betrayal On His Part - And The Retribution Is Deliberate And Horrifying. From the acclaimed author of Spring Snow, this novel tells of a band of savage 13-year-old boys who reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call objectivity Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea