Forbidden Colors -- Yukio Mishima

From one of Japan's greatest modern writers comes an exquisitely disturbing novel of sexual combat and concealed passion, a work that distills beauty, longing, and loathing into an intoxicating tale. <p/> An aging, embittered novelist sets out to avenge himself on the women who have betrayed him. He finds the perfect instrument in Yuichi, a young man whose beauty makes him irresistible to women but who is just discovering his attraction to other men. As Yuichi's mentor presses him into a loveless marriage and a series of equally loveless philanderings, his prot g enters the gay underworld of postwar Japan where Yuichi is defenseless as any of the women he preys upon.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Yukio Mishima<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 02/22/1999<br><b>Pages:</b> 416<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 1.00lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.90d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780375705168<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Library Journal</i> 05/01/1999 pg. 118<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Yukio Mishima</b> was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University's School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, <i>The Forest in Full Bloom</i>, appeared in 1944. He established himself as a major author with <i>Confessions of a Mask </i>(1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, <i>The Sea of Fertility</i> tetralogy--which contains th