|
|
|
A High Wind in Jamaica
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Author:
|
Hughes, Richard
|
|
Set In . . .
|
|
|
|
|
Central America, Caribbean, Jamaica
|
|
Genre:
|
Historical Fiction
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Time Frame:
|
Early 20th Century
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Published:
|
1929
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Description:
|
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.
|
|
|