A high wind in Jamaica / Richard Hughes ; introduction by Francine Prose.
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TextPublication details: New York : New York Review Books, 1999.Description: 279 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0940322153 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780940322158 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Innocent voyage
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Main Library | Fiction | Hughes, Richard | Available | 33111005389818 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Originally published: The innocent voyage. Boston : Harper, 1929.