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. |
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"A memoir"--Cover. |
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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.
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Brinkley-Rogers, Paul -- Childhood and youth.
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Kaji, Yukiko.
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Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
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British Americans -- Japan -- Biography.
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Sailors -- United States -- Biography.
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Coming of age.
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May-December romances.
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Man-woman relationships.
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Love -- Philosophy.
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Americans. (OCoLC)fst00807488
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Journalists. (OCoLC)fst00984188
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Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
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May-December romances. (OCoLC)fst01743273
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Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Genre/Form |
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Autobiographies.
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ISBN |
9781501151262 (paperback) |
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1501151266 (paperback) |
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