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High Wind in Jamaica

By Richard Hughes

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| Paperback | 9780060830991

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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 chiContinue

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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    A High Wind in Jamaica Richard Hughes New York Review of Books Paperback 290 pages September 1999 The jacket blurbs for Richard Hughes’ A High Wind in Jamaica insist this book is a twentieth-century classic. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. Classic ... (read full critics)

    curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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