· From my library: A folio Society edition of Richard Hughes classic story of pirates, kids, and moral ambiguity. 25 Points: A High Wind in Jamaica. A High Wind in Jamaica. by Richard Hughes. NYRB Classics, pages / $ buy from NYRB or Amazon. 1. On the surface, Richard Hughes’s A High Wind in Jamaica is a dot-to-dot adventure tale. After a hurricane hits an English settlement in Jamaica, two families decide to send their children back to England. Early on in the voyage the children are . - Andrew Sean Greer, All Things Considered, NPR "Cross a wacky seafaring adventure--Conrad gone awry via inept piracy--with an exploration of the consciousness of a child as radical and insightful as that provided by Henry James in What Maisie Knew, and you have A High Wind In Jamaica by Richard bltadwin.ru turns funny, ironic, and brutally sad, this is a complex and astonishing novel."-Sue /5(2).
From my library: A folio Society edition of Richard Hughes classic story of pirates, kids, and moral ambiguity. When a trusted source recently named Richard Hughes' novel A High Wind in Jamaica as a book that "just flat out blind-sided me with [its] perfection," I knew I had to have it. It was one of those synchronicity things: I remember, a decade back or more, seeing it forever languishing on the tables in my local Waterstone's in a handsome Harvill edition, which was to me the only thing. Richard Hughes, author of A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA, is clearly a proponent of Voltaire's outlook, and you will be too after reading his odd little study on two "crews," one a band of children "kidnapped" accidentally en route from Jamaica to England, and the other a band of pirates who meet their match at the hands of these not-so-noble little.
What A High Wind in Jamaica gives us is a highly original approach to the relationship of power between adults and children, and some of the most disquieting scenes of the book are where the children discover and explore their new awareness of power, whether violent or sexual. A High Wind in Jamaica, by Richard Hughes, is the story of five British children, the Bas-Thorntons from Jamaica, who are abducted by pirates. The children are living with their parents on a sugar. First published in , A High Wind in Jamaica has been compared to Lord of the Flies in its unflinching portrayal of innocence corrupted, but Richard Hughes is the supreme ironist William Golding never was. He possesses the ability to be one moment thoroughly inside a character's head, and the next outside of it altogether, hilariously commenting.
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