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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.
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A High Wind in Jamaica: The Innocent Voyage
June 1995, Buccaneer Books Inc
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A High Wind in Jamaica
March 1994, HarperCollins
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A high wind in Jamaica
1975, Chatto and Windus, Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)
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High Wind in Jamaica
May 1972, HarperCollins Publishers
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"ONE OF THE fruits of Emancipation in the West Indian islands is the number of the ruins, either attached to the houses that remain or within a stone's throw of them: ruined slaves' quarters, ruined sugar-grinding houses, ruined boiling houses; often ruined mansions that were too expensive to maintain."
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