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Runaway Horses: The Sea of Fertility, 2
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Runaway Horses: The Sea of Fertility, 2 Paperback - 1990

by Yukio Mishima

Runaway Horses is the chronicle of a patriotic conspiracy, a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war, in a Japan marked by depression, the confusion of changing social patterns, political violence and assassination. Second in The Sea of Fertility tetralogy.


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Yukio Mishima was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 and he established himself as a major author with Confessions of a Mask (1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, The Sea of Fertility tetralogy—which contains the novels Spring Snow (1969), Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970), and The Decay of the Angel (1971)—is considered one of the definitive works of twentieth century Japanese fiction. In 1970, at the age of 45 and the day after completing the last novel in the Fertility series, Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide)—a spectacular death that attracted worldwide attention.

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The chronicle of a conspiracy and a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war--an era marked by depression, social change and political violence.

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  • Title Runaway Horses: The Sea of Fertility, 2
  • Author Yukio Mishima
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1990-04-14
  • ISBN 9780679722403 / 0679722408
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.8 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Japan - Fiction, Revolutionaries - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 89040560
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

“A modern masterpiece.”
The Baltimore Sun
 
“Mishima is like Stendhal in his precise psychological analyses, like Dostoevsky in his explorations of darkly destructive personalities.”
Christian Science Monitor

About the author

YUKIO MISHIMA was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University's School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 and he established himself as a major author with Confessions of a Mask (1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, The Sea of Fertility tetralogy--which contains the novels Spring Snow (1969), Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970), and The Decay of the Angel (1971)--is considered one of the definitive works of twentieth century Japanese fiction. In 1970, at the age of 45 and the day after completing the last novel in the Fertility series, Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide)--a spectacular death that attracted worldwide attention.
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