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Publication Date: 01 Sep 1999

until the painful contrast between the future she imagined and her daily reality ultimately drives her to a breaking point

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Confessions of a Mask William Boyd and daily lives of theConfessions of a Mask tells the story of a Japanese boy's development towards a homosexual identity during and after the Second World War. In narrating his progress from an isolated childhood through adolescence to manhood, he exposes his inner life, full of repressed homosexual desires and preoccupations with sadomasochism and death. The enduring power of the novel is in part owing to its themes of fantasy, despair, and alienation, its eloquent