A High Wind in Jamaica
Material type: TextPublication details: New York Review of BooksDescription: 296 pagesISBN:- 9781590173718
- 823.912
- PR6015.U35
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Book | Lake Chapala Society | TP HUGH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 4573 |
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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