The Night Soil Man With a Big Fat Booty

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"It's about the big fat booty, but alsoike, big fat loneliness. He thinks that the gi guide experiences you are rigt yes, it is both and something throughout the book," she says. "The language is kind of flowery, but like, it's still pretty graphic."

Tell me about a Complicated Man. Mishima's breakthrough coming-of-age novel about sexuality in late Imperial Japan has a powerful narrative voice and prose style. But the legacy of his work and his political goals has led to him being a bit of an "enigma" (as one listener referred to him) -- to put it lightly.

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