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A High Wind in Jamaica

Richard Hughes

出版	New York Review of Books, 2010-06-23
主題	Fiction / LiteraryFiction / Sea Stories
ISBN	15901737169781590173718
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=CzOihVNRJrsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋

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.