A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes

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A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes

Richard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth-century Jamaica, before moving out onto the high seas, as Hughes tells the story of a group of children thrown upon the mercy of a crew of down-at-the-heel pirates. A tale of seduction and betrayal, of accommodation and manipulation, of weird humor and unforeseen violence, this classic of twentieth-century literature is above all an extraordinary reckoning with the secret reasons and otherworldly realities of childhood.

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ISBN 13 9780940322158
ISBN 10 0940322153
Title A High Wind in Jamaica
Author Richard Hughes
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher The New York Review of Books, Inc
Year published 1999-09-30
Number of pages 296
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.