A High Wind in JamaicaRichard 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. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 41 |
Section 3 | 62 |
Section 4 | 63 |
Section 5 | 91 |
Section 6 | 115 |
Section 7 | 117 |
Section 8 | 133 |
Section 9 | 135 |
Section 10 | 149 |
Section 11 | 177 |
Section 12 | 179 |
Section 13 | 207 |
Section 14 | 209 |
Section 15 | 241 |
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