A High Wind in Jamaica

von Richard Hughes

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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.

• Themen: Belletristik Action- / Abenteuerromane Meeresgeschichten
• ISBN: 9780940322158
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.09.1999
• Größe: 203 x 126 mm
• Verlag: New York Review of Books