The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea

A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adt world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train thselves in a utal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of th begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idease the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. They regard this disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his Art - and the retribution is deberate and horrifying.