Life for Sale -- Yukio Mishima

After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper. Soon interested parties come calling with increasingly bizarre requests and what follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled heiress, poisoned carrots--even a vampire. For someone who just wants to die, Hanio can't seem to catch a break, as he finds himself enmeshed in a continent-wide conspiracy that puts him in the cross hairs of both his own government and a powerful organized-crime syndicate. By turns wildly inventive, darkly comedic, and deeply surreal, in <i>Life for Sale</i> Yukio Mishima stunningly uses satire to explore the same dark themes that preoccupied him throughout his lifetime.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Yukio Mishima<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 04/07/2020<br><b>Pages:</b> 192<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.45lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.60d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780525565147<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Publishers Weekly</i> 11/18/2019<br><i>Kirkus Reviews</i> 03/01/2020<br><i>Shelf Awareness</i> 05/05/2020<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Yukio Mishima 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, and he established himself as a major author with <i>Confessions of a Mask</i> (1949). From the