Hurricane (Caribbean Modern Classics) - Softcover

Andrew Salkey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845231805 ISBN 13: 9781845231804

Publisher: Peepal Tree Press, 2011

Synopsis

Hurricane is the gripping story of a natural disaster and the thirteen year-old Kingston boy who lives to tell the tale.

Holed up in their home, Joe Brown, his sister Mary and their parents wait for the eye of the hurricane to pass over them. Outside, a terrifying wind turns trees to splinters, darkness swallows the land and torrential rains lash the roof.

Inside it is warm, dry, a home. A family huddled together for survival. But the storm hasn t passed yet, and all Joe and his family can do is worry, and wait, and hope.

About this title

Review:

"Strongly recommended." --"School Librarian"

About the Author:

Andrew Salkey was a novelist, poet, children's books writer and journalist of Jamaican and Haitian origin. He was born in Panama but raised in Jamaica, moving to Britain in the 1950s. A prolific writer and editor, he was the author of more than 30 books in the course of his career, including novels for adults and for children, poetry collections, anthologies, travelogues and essays. He died in 1995

About this edition

• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1845231805
• ISBN 13: 9781845231804
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102