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.

Related: Caribbean, Fantasy, Jamaica, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

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• ISBN: 9780940322158
• Author: Hughes, Richard
• Published: 1999, NYRB Classics
• Themes: Books, Childhood, Dance, Humor, Pirates, secrets
• Descriptors: Caribbean, Fantasy, Jamaica, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
• No. of pages: 296