Price: $17.95 - $13.35
(as of Oct 30, 2024 12:30:01 UTC – Details)
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.
Publisher : NYRB Classics; Later prt. edition (January 1, 1928)
Language : English
Paperback : 279 pages
ISBN-10 : 0940322153
ISBN-13 : 978-0940322158
Item Weight : 10.4 ounces
Dimensions : 4.94 x 0.81 x 7.98 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book wonderful, fantastic, and brilliant. They praise the writing style as brilliant and omniscient. Readers describe the narrative style as compelling, interesting, and subversive. They appreciate the analyses of the minds of children and the insights into the developing minds of interesting and complex people. Additionally, they mention the pacing is perfect in tone and detail.
AI-generated from the text of customer reviews
