A High Wind in Jamaica (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Nyrb Classics
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1999
First published:	September 1999
Authors:	Richard Hughes
Introduction by:	Francine Prose
Dimensions:	203 x 125 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-0-940322-15-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction
LSN:	0-940322-15-3
Barcode:	9780940322158

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