a High Wind in Jamaica

✍ Scribed by Hughes, Richard

• Book ID: 107208054
• Publisher: New York Review Books
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 166 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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.