| Title | : | A High Wind in Jamaica |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Richard Hughes & Francine Prose |
| Release | : | 1999-09-30 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Literary Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature |
| Size | : | 3376194 |
| 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. |
