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 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