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A High Wind in Jamaica
by Richard Hughes and Francine Prose
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Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9780940322158
- ISBN-10: 0940322153
- Publisher: New York Review of Books
- Publish Date: September 1999
- Dimensions: 7.96 x 5.06 x 0.73 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.66 pounds
- Page Count: 296
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