Suicide
| author: Nick Hornby | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 2006 c.2005 | publisher: Penguin Books | | content type: book | | description: There's Martin, a disgraced breakfast television host; there's Catholic Maureen, whose life has been drained and dominated by her unresponsive disabled son; there's Jess, a lippy 18-year-old with behavioural problems. Rounding out the quartet is JJ, an American musician, named after John Julius Norwich, who seems to have less obvious reasons for despair, although two recent splits - with his band and his English girlfriend - have reduced him to delivering pizzas and contemplating the end of everything.
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| author: Yukio Mishima | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1959 | publisher: Penguin Books | | content type: book | | description: The novel is loosely based on the burning of the Reliquary (or Golden Pavilion) of Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto by a young Buddhist acolyte in 1950. The pavilion, dating from before 1400, was a national monument which had been spared destruction many times throughout history, and the arson shocked Japan. The story is narrated by Mizoguchi, the disturbed acolyte in question, who is afflicted with an ugly face and a stutter, and who recounts his obsession with beauty and the growth of his urge to destroy it.
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