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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)

A High Wind in Jamaica Paperback | Pages: 279 pages

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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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Title	:	A High Wind in Jamaica
Author	:	Richard Hughes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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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A surprisingly good novel, and well written, that sails quietly along without much notice or fanfare, like a ship at night. I use the nautical reference because most of this story is set on or close to the sea. But the story is about children, and how they think, and how they react to events and circumstances beyond their control. For me, there are subtle similarities to Lord of the Flies regarding the psychology of children when left to their own devices. It deserves it's place in the canon of

For some reason, I decided to resume reading this juvenile novel first published in 1929 - a classic novel of childhood (back cover) - once again after browsing on Martin Amis and Richard Hughes in Professor John Sutherland's Lives of the Novelists (Profile Books, 2011, pp. 783-7) in which we are informed that Amis himself read this fiction and found it "a thrillingly good book . . . more continuously sinuous and inward (and enjoyable) than Golding." (p. 785) He meant of course William Golding's

------------------------------This book is startlingly good. The humorous, chirpy celebration of its prose does not seem to prepare the reader for the storys numerous tragic reversals.What at first may appear to be a childrens adventure story of a 19th century locale and flavor quickly evolves into a 20th century immediacy of content and psychology. Frightening, pointless, accidental violence is quickly forgotten and covered over. Nothing important just happened.What, for me, is most memorable

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

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 handled

So deliciously strange, I couldn't put it down. The prose is just fantastic.