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| Title | : | A High Wind in Jamaica |
| Author | : | Richard Hughes |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 279 pages |
| Published | : | September 30th 1999 by The New York Review of Books (first published 1929) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Adventure. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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New edition of a classic adventure novel and one of the most startling, highly praised stories in English literature - a brilliant chronicle of two sensitive children's violent voyage from innocence to experience.After a terrible hurricane levels their Jamaican estate, the Bas-Thorntons decide to send their children back to the safety and comfort of England. On the way their ship is set upon by pirates, and the children are accidentally transferred to the pirate vessel. Jonsen, the well-meaning pirate captain, doesn't know how to dispose of his new cargo, while the children adjust with surprising ease to their new life. As this strange company drifts around the Caribbean, events turn more frightening and the pirates find themselves increasingly incriminated by the children's fates. The most shocking betrayal, however, will take place only after the return to civilization.
The swift, almost hallucinatory action of Hughes's novel, together with its provocative insight into the psychology of children, made it a best seller when it was first published in 1929 and has since established it as a classic of twentieth-century literature - an unequaled exploration of the nature, and limits, of innocence.
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| Original Title: | A High Wind in Jamaica |
| ISBN: | 0940322153 (ISBN13: 9780940322158) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Caribbean Sea Jamaica |
| Literary Awards: | Prix Femina Vie Heureuse Anglais (1931) |
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Ratings: 3.78 From 8219 Users | 802 ReviewsCriticism Based On Books A High Wind in Jamaica
What an engrossing, strange and beautiful novel this is! The writing is exquisite. The style is unique with an often-dreamlike quality that contrasts sharply with a harsh and violent reality. In her introduction, Francine Prose states it far better than I can: there is a humorous chirpy celebration to its narrative voice and right away we are conscious of, and troubled by, the dissonance between tone and content.Exactly. The contrast and balance between humor and what transpires is handledI have heard of this book forever and even think I own it, but I really need to read it after what you wrote. Very good review.
Five English children, born in Jamaica, are sent by ship to England when their house is leveled by a storm. On the voyage, their ship is attacked by less than bloodthirsty pirates. Reported dead by the lying ships captain, the children actually become sort of pets among the not very active pirates. Though horrible things happen the eldest boy dies in a fall, a female cousin of thirteen is apparently taken as a mistress by the mate, and Emily, the ten year old main character, kills a prisoner in
This is one of the best books I have ever fucking read. Don't even read this review... Just go read the book already! Then you can come back and read the rest of this review.First of all the subject matter cannot be better: pirates, kids, pigs, monkeys, goats, earthquakes, hurricanes, clue-less adults.Secondly, it's the language, stupid! The language is so fucking great. Hughes sometimes forms the most un-intelligeable sentences with the weirdest fucking words, but string them up in a way that
High Wind in Jamaica was first published in 1929 as The Innocent Voyage. It was Hughes first novel -- he was 29. As it turned out, Hughes was not a prolific writer and is often used as an example when discussing writers block. He would go on to write, prior to World War II, a good Conradian sea novel (In Hazard) and then, in 1960, the much later - and admired - Fox in the Attic. Hughes died in 1975. Fox was part of an intended Tolystoyan-like trilogy dealing with events leading up to World War
Its like Richard Hughes had never read a novel before writing this one. He has no idea! Lets break into stage dialogue here. In the middle of some action sequence lets have a page about childrens games. The shocks here are actually shocking because the prose is so cosy and jolly, all about these kids who grow up in the wilds of Jamaica and then are send by their parents to England to be educated, but their ship is taken by friendly pirates who deliberately dont have any guns, and who end up
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