A High Wind in Jamaica - Hardcover
Written in 1929, this tale of childhood is set in the last century against a tropical landscape and the ever-present sea. The book tells the story of a family of English children who, on being sent by their parents back to England from Jamaica, fall into the hands of pirates.
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"I read Richard Hughes’ A High Wind in Jamaica this year and felt breathless with shock and awe... Appallingly dark story...dreadfully funny." (Meg Rosoff Independent)
"A thrillingly good book" (Martin Amis)
"On one level it's an exciting adventure story with great storms and earthquakes, terrific animals, unruly children and some dubious pirates. What more, when young, could you want? But all this coexists with another narrative, darker and more sophisticated, complex and tragic. You can read this book over again and have read a different novel." (Michael Holroyd Guardian)
"What starts as merely masterful storytelling becomes something dreamlike and haunting; it's not a book you easily forget" (Independent on Sunday)
"Before Lord of the Flies there was A High Wind in Jamaica, an uninching, wryly observed portrait of the madness of children" (The Guardian)
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"A thrillingly good book" (Martin Amis)
"On one level it's an exciting adventure story with great storms and earthquakes, terrific animals, unruly children and some dubious pirates. What more, when young, could you want? But all this coexists with another narrative, darker and more sophisticated, complex and tragic. You can read this book over again and have read a different novel." (Michael Holroyd Guardian)
"What starts as merely masterful storytelling becomes something dreamlike and haunting; it's not a book you easily forget" (Independent on Sunday)
"Before Lord of the Flies there was A High Wind in Jamaica, an uninching, wryly observed portrait of the madness of children" (The Guardian)
'A quite extraordinary and unforgettable book' Ralph Straus
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0701149035
- ISBN 13 9780701149031
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages284
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A pristine, collectible, Fine book. Published in 1992 by Chatto and Windus. This edition first published in 1975 is a hardcover reprinting of this 1929 title from Hughes (1900-1976), famous for its kids who are worse than the pirates who kidnap them a harbinger of Lord of the Flies. "This brilliant, gorgeously written, highly entertaining, and apparently light-hearted idyll quickly reveals its true nature as a powerful and profoundly disquieting meditation on the meaning of loyalty and betrayal, innocence and corruption, truth and deception." ? Francine Prose, Elle. Seller Inventory # 003668
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