| A High Wind in Jamaica Contributor(s): Hughes, Richard (Author), Prose, Francine (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0940322153 ISBN-13: 9780940322158 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1999 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Sea Stories |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 99014565 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.06" W x 7.96" (0.66 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |