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020			_a9781590173718
050			_aPR6015.U35
082			_a823.912
100	1		_aRichard Hughes
245	1		_aA High Wind in Jamaica
260			_bNew York Review of Books
300			_a296 pages
520			_aRichard 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.
999			_c19692 _d19692