Toward that end the cynical Shunsuke enlists the beautiful young Yuichi, who is irresistible to women but is just coming to realize that he loves only men. As the boy embarks on a loveless marriage and equally loveless adulteries, he enters the gay underworld of postwar Japan -- a world where he is as helpless as any of the women he preys on.
- ISBN10 0140181598
- ISBN13 9780140181593
- Publish Date 25 April 1991 (first published September 1968)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 January 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Penguin Classics
- Format Paperback
- Pages 432
- Language English