A High Wind in Jamaica (Record no. 19692)
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| fixed length control field | 00934nam a2200145 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781590173718 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PR6015.U35 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 823.912 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Richard Hughes |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A High Wind in Jamaica |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | New York Review of Books |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 296 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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. |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 07/17/2024 | TP HUGH | 4573 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |