{"product_id":"confessions-of-a-mask-9780586037249","title":"Confessions of a Mask","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eConfessions of a Mask\u003c\/strong\u003e by Yukio Mishima. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780586037249.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the classics of modern Japanese fiction. Confessions of a Mask is the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact that he is unlike other young men. Mishimas protagonist discovers that he is becoming a homosexual in polite, post-war Japan. To survive, he must live behind a mask of propriety.\n\nChristopher Isherwood commentsâ \"One might say, Here is a Japanese Gide,....But no, Mishima is himselfâ a very Japanese Mishima; lucid in the midst of emotional confusion, funny in the midst of despair, quite without pomposity, sentimentality or self-pity. His book, like no other, has made me understand a little of how it feels to be Japanese. I think it is greatly superior, as art and as a human document to his deservedly praised novel, The Sound of Waves.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Children's Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44909635469365,"sku":"ByrdShop_0586037241","price":92.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0586037241_2c4f5f4a-f5e2-4f73-ba9a-1cd2fcb2056d.jpg?v=1784259183","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/confessions-of-a-mask-9780586037249","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}