# A High Wind in Jamaica

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- Book: [A High Wind in Jamaica](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-hughes/a-high-wind-in-jamaica) ([A High Wind in Jamaica.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-hughes/a-high-wind-in-jamaica.md))
- Authors: [Richard Hughes](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-hughes)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-09-4032-215-8
- Pages: 296
- Published: 1999-09-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...