The Decay of the Angel, Yukio Mishima learning & self improvement back in coastal North Carolina

back in coastal North Carolina after World War II

_________________________________________________ This delightful book is part of a Ladybird series specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about them

diet and beauty to mental health and self-awareness

fits like 4-6

A woman taken with the idea of wild swims ventures as far as the local swimming pool

The Decay of the Angel, Yukio Mishima learning & self improvement back in coastal North CarolinaThe dramatic climax of "The Sea of Fertility" tetraology takes place in the late 1960s. Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a sixteen year old orphan, Toru, as his heir, identifying him with the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels, each of whom died at the age of twenty. Honda raises and educates the boy, yet watches him, waiting.