A High Wind in Jamaica
Author | : Richard Hughes |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1999-09-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 0940322153 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780940322158 |
Rating | : 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Download or read book A High Wind in Jamaica written by Richard Hughes and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.