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Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck (2011)

by Margarita Engle(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0805092404 (ISBN13: 9780805092400)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

review 1: Set in the 15th century on the island of Hispanolia, Hurricane Dancers tells the story of the events leading up to, including and following a hurricane-induced shipwrecked pirate ship through the eyes of a slave, the captain of the ship, a prisoner, and several native peoples living on the island. Through fast-paced and melodious prose, we learn how a slave longs for freedom, a captain longs for power, and how two young people long to love each other. Adventure, violence, friendship, hatred, and love converge in one story as seen through many different perspectives.
review 2: It was a good story. Very "poetic," if you will. Just like I don't understand abstract art, I don't get this style of poetry. What makes it poetry? From what I can tell, it has no rhy... morethm, no rhyme, no set pattern of stanzas (I was never good at judging meter, but I suspect it's not there either). It just fragments of sentences broken up at different intervals at various places on a page. You can do that with prose, but I guess it doesn't look as nice. I don't get it. less

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