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| #70723 in Books | 1928 | 1999-09-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.98 x.73 x5.01l, | File type: PDF | 279 pages||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Childhood at its Weirdest|By joe|This little book exceeded my expectations and made me wonder how many other books, unsung or forgotten, are living out there on library shelves. The New York Review of books has opened a door into this lost world of words. This is the second book I have recently read from the NYRB collection. If you've grown tired of hunting for good reads in re|.com |A High Wind in Jamaica is not so much a book as a curious object, like a piece of driftwood torqued into an alarming shape from years at sea. And like driftwood, it seems not to have been made, exactly, but simply to have come into being, so perfec
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,...
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