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In Hazard Paperback - 2008

by Richard Hughes; Introduction by John Crowley


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Richard Hughes (1900—1976) attended Oxford and lived for most of his life in a castle in Wales. His books include The Fox in the Attic, The Wooden Shepherdess, and A High Wind in Jamaica. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and, in the United States, an honorary member of both the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1946.

John Crowley is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including Love & Sleep, Aegypt, and Little, Big. He lives in northern Massachusetts with his wife and twin daughters.

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  • Title In Hazard
  • Author Richard Hughes; Introduction by John Crowley
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New York Review of Books, New York
  • Date 2008-08-12
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian
  • ISBN 9781590172728 / 1590172728
  • Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.98 x 5.1 x 0.56 in (20.27 x 12.95 x 1.42 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Sea stories, Hurricanes
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008002808
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

" With his eerie narrator (Is it a surviving crew member? The author? Poseidon himself?), Hughes presents an atmospheric book that makes trouble with pirates, rocky shoals or white whales seem almost trifling." --Time Out New York

"The passages in literature that have thrilled me most have almost all been sea battles and storms. Now I have had the great and exhilarating pleasure of surviving yet another tempest in Richard Hughes's In Hazard, now equipped with an excellent introduction by John Crowley... The novel is superb." --Katharine Powers, The Boston Globe

"To take the same subject as Conrad in Typhoon would be foolhardy if it were not so triumphantly justified." -Graham Greene

"Richard Hughes is a genuine case of unfair neglect, and will some day be seen again as one of the very best novelist of the past hundred years from Great Britain...In Hazard is much more than a brilliant sea story. The tale is about extreme danger and human reactions to it...It seems just as apposite to our times, when we confront a bewildering range of hazards, including the destructiveness of nature, which we ourselves are probably exacerbating." -The Financial Times

"Richard Hughes...has done another magnificent saga of the sea in this novel which inevitably calls to mind Conrad's Typhoon, not for similarity in the progression of the novel, but because of the power with which the author evokes the man's struggle against the elements. A story of mad weather at sea, it is told with restraint, humor and irony. Almost compulsory reading." -North American Fiction Review

"In Hazard is not really a book about a storm, but about fear...what will stick in most minds are the sharp descriptive passages--of a scene, illuminated by lightning, when the crew looks out on a mountainside of water crawling with sharks." —Time

"The most intense reading experience of the year-easily-was discovering Richard Hughes's 1938 novel, In Hazard, a small masterpiece of lyric terror about a cargo ship that runs into a hurricane, but also about the rest of life. It might have helped that I read it in a force 10 gale on the Atlantic but reading it in the bath would probably have the same impact."-Simon Schama, The Guardian

"Every bit the equal of Perfect Storm, this is the story of a freighter that gets caught out in the worst hurricane ever recorded at the time. It's terrifying, and it's also wonderfully written." -Boat Safe

About the author

Richard Hughes (1900--1976) attended Oxford and lived for most of his life in a castle in Wales. His books include The Fox in the Attic, The Wooden Shepherdess, and A High Wind in Jamaica. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and, in the United States, an honorary member of both the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1946.

John Crowley is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including Love & Sleep, Aegypt, and Little, Big. He lives in northern Massachusetts with his wife and twin daughters.

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