A High Wind in Jamaica
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 1929
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780940322158
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781860464973, 9780099437437, 9781860461644, 9781568495828, 9780002713122, 9780140006940, 9780701121532, 9780884111283
- Publisher:
- New York Review Books Classics
- Date of Addition:
- 12/08/10
- Copyrighted By:
- the Executors of the Estate of Richard Hughes
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Outdoors and Nature
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.