A High Wind in Jamaica
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
A High Wind In Jamaica
I will not let out the storyline here, and spoil the story, however, I would advise against reading the introduction at the beginning of this book, because that is exactly what Francine Prose did, for me, or to me, unfortunately. With all the swashbuckling action of a Robert Conrad tale, Richard Hughes relates a Lord of the Flies type of tale, that leaves the reader a little unsettled by the end.