Thirst for Love -- Yukio Mishima

<b>Full of sexual torment, jealousy, and impossible-to-resolve longing, this novel from "one of the outstanding writers of the world" (<i>The New York Time</i>s) presents a riveting portrait of the corrosive power of frustrated desire. <br></b><br>The protaganist is Etsuko, a young widow whose philandering husband died horribly from typhoid. After moving into the house of her father-in-law, her misery deepens as she numbly submits to the old man's advances. But soon Etsuko falls in love with the young servant, Saburo. Tormented by his indifference yet invigorated by her anguish, she makes one last, catastrophic, bid for his attentions. <br><br><br><b>Author:</b> Yukio Mishima<br><b>Publisher:</b> Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group<br><b>Published:</b> 02/22/1999<br><b>Pages:</b> 208<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.50lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.98h x 5.22w x 0.61d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780375705076<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>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. 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 the novels <