TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richard Hughes
TI  - A High Wind in Jamaica
SN  - 9781590173718
AV  - PR6015.U35 
U1  - 823.912 
PB  - New York Review of Books
N2  - 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
ER  -