A High Wind in Jamaica

A High Wind in JamaicaRichard 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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 09/30/1999
ISBN: 9780940322158
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.06w x 0.73d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/09/1999 pg. 346
New York Times 12/19/1999 pg. 36
Entertainment Weekly 08/09/2002 pg. 68