Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories University of Nebraska Press and Ripley--love their summers at

and Ripley--love their summers at camp

In this poignant memoir

After a hard-drinking

Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008) started work at the venerable fashion house of Christian Dior at the age of 18

Letting it go is not an option--not if ze wants to prove zirself

Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories University of Nebraska Press and Ripley--love their summers atNine of Yukio Mishima's finest stories were selected by Mishima himself for translation in this book; they represent his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance. Often his characters are sophisticated modern Japanese who turn out to be not so liberated from the past as they had thought.