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and was also picked as a Charlotte Huck Honor Book

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The Decay of the Angel Ethics & moral philosophy and an homage to prostitutesThe fourth and final book in Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility The dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility tetraology. It is the 1960s and Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a sixteen year old orphan, Toru. Honda believes that the boy is the reincarnation of the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels, each of whom died at the age of twenty. Honda raises and educates the boy, he makes him his heir, and