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A High Wind in Jamaica

A High Wind in Jamaica

Hughes, Richard
Prose, Francine

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Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 0940322153
ISBN13: 9780940322158
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Sep 30 1999
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.96
Language: English
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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