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A High Wind in Jamaica (The Innocent Voyage) (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 112)

A High Wind in Jamaica (The Innocent Voyage) (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 112)

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A High Wind in Jamaica (The Innocent Voyage) (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 112)

by Hughes, Richard; Paterson, Isabel

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  • Hardcover
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New York: The Modern Library, 1932. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. 1932-9 printing. Toledano 112.2, binding style 7, orange Rockwell Kent endpapers. Lacks jacket. Spine faded, owner bookplate on front endpaper. xxii, [2], 399 pp. Inspiration for the 1965 film starring Anthony Quinn and James Coburn. "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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Bookseller's Inventory #
2329021
Title
A High Wind in Jamaica (The Innocent Voyage) (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 112)
Author
Hughes, Richard; Paterson, Isabel
Format/Binding
Hard Cover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Quantity Available
1
Edition
Reprint
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
The Modern Library
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1932
Size
0x0x0
Weight
0.56 lbs
Keywords
LITERATURE WELSH FICTION

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