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A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
4.0
A dream on a blue blue sea...
Hughes makes an amazing work, obscuring the line between adult and child and desire and reality. The violence is always shocking, the psychology both profound and charmingly simple. Narrative-wise it constantly sways, like the tide, between tedium and beautiful unadorned prose. Hughes is just a master of describing indifference, of playing within an emotional or psychic distance and explaining the translation that takes place.
Hughes makes an amazing work, obscuring the line between adult and child and desire and reality. The violence is always shocking, the psychology both profound and charmingly simple. Narrative-wise it constantly sways, like the tide, between tedium and beautiful unadorned prose. Hughes is just a master of describing indifference, of playing within an emotional or psychic distance and explaining the translation that takes place.