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Author Brinkley-Rogers, Paul, author.

Title Please enjoy your happiness / Paul Brinkley-Rogers.

Publication Info. New York : Touchstone, 2017.
©2016

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 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. BRINKLEY-ROGERS, P.    Storage
Edition First Touchstone paperback edition.
Description viii, 342 pages ; 22 cm
Note "Originally published in 2016 in Great Britain by Pan Macmillan"--Title page verso.
"A memoir"--Cover.
Includes reading group guide.
Summary "Please Enjoy Your Happiness is a beautifully written coming-of-age memoir based on the English author's summer-long love affair with a remarkable older Japanese woman. Whilst serving as a seaman at the age of nineteen, Brinkley-Rogers met Kaji Yukiko, a sophisticated, highly intellectual Japanese woman, who was on the run from her vicious gangster boyfriend, a member of Japan's brutal crime syndicate, the Yakuza. Trying to create a perfect experience of purity, she took him under her wing, sharing their love of poetry, cinema and music and many an afternoon at the Mozart Café. Brinkley-Rogers, now in his seventies, re-reads Yukiko's letters and finally recognizes her as the love of his life, receiving at last the gifts she tried to bestow on him. Reaching across time and continents, Brinkley-Rogers shows us how to reclaim a lost love, inviting us all to celebrate those loves of our lives that never do end"--Publisher description.
Contents One fine day -- The torment -- Blue woman -- A certain girl -- Time of the typewriter -- Man like a bear -- Spider woman -- Nice simple boy -- There is no forgiveness -- Five simple rules -- The police know everything -- Yukiko's list -- The most beautiful -- The tower of lilies -- What is my joy? -- Hall of flowers -- Inappropriate thinking -- Friends and enemies -- Waiting woman -- Am I OK? -- Nocturnes -- What men find beautiful -- The garden of grand vision -- We are very sorry -- Can you find it in your heart?
Subject Brinkley-Rogers, Paul -- Relations with women.
Brinkley-Rogers, Paul -- Childhood and youth.
Kaji, Yukiko.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
British Americans -- Japan -- Biography.
Sailors -- United States -- Biography.
Coming of age.
May-December romances.
Man-woman relationships.
Love -- Philosophy.
Americans. (OCoLC)fst00807488
Journalists. (OCoLC)fst00984188
Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
May-December romances. (OCoLC)fst01743273
Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9781501151262 (paperback)
1501151266 (paperback)
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