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.
" 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
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