A High Wind in Jamaica - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Richard Hughes, Francine Prose (Introduction by)Publish date:9/30/1999Pages:296
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9780940322158ISBN-10:940322153UPC:9780940322158Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Action & Adventure, Sea StoriesSize:7.96 x 5.06 x 0.73 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SC8EXWKGZG
A High Wind in Jamaica
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9780940322158ISBN-10:940322153UPC:9780940322158Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Action & Adventure, Sea StoriesSize:7.96 x 5.06 x 0.73 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SC8EXWKGZG
Richard Hughes (1900-1976) was born in Surrey, England, but his ancestors came from Wales and he considered himself a Welshman. After an early childhood marked by the deaths of two older siblings and his father (his mother then went to work as a magazine journalist), Hughes attended boarding school and, with every expectation of being sent to fight in the First World War, enrolled in the...
Publisher: New York Review of Books
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