The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima - Hardcover

Scott-Stokes, Henry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374186200 ISBN 13: 9780374186203

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1974

Synopsis

The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima is still regarded as a definitive account of the Japanese writer’s extraordinary life. Scott Stokes was one of the few Westerners to become a close friend of Mishima and his close accounts of him are key to the fascination of this biography

About this title

About the Author:

Henry Scott Stokes is a noted journalist who has worked for both the New York Times and the London Times. Most recently, he has edited an anthology entitled The Kwangju Uprising: Eyewitness Press Accounts of Korea's Tiananmen. He lives in Tokyo.

From Publishers Weekly:

This revised edition of Stokes' 1974 biography of Japanese novelist Mishima, whose obsession with samurai culture and the Emperor led him to commit hara-kiri as a political protest in 1970, is also available in hardcover for $27.50 (-18623-5).
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About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0374186200
• ISBN 13: 9780374186203
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344