{"product_id":"in-hazard-isbn-9781590172728","title":"In Hazard","description":"The \u003ci\u003eArchimedes \u003c\/i\u003eis a modern merchant steamship in tip-top condition, and in the summer of 1929 it has been picking up goods  along the eastern seaboard of the United States  before making a run to China. A little overloaded,  perhaps—the oddly assorted cargo includes piles of old newspapers and heaps of  tobacco—the ship departs for  the Panama Canal from Norfolk, Virginia, on a beautiful autumn day. Before long, the weather turns unexpectedly rough—rougher in fact than even the most experienced members of the crew  have ever encountered. The \u003ci\u003eArchimedes, \u003c\/i\u003eit turns out,  has  been swept up in the vortex of an immense hurricane, and for the  next four days it will be battered and mauled by wind and waves as it is driven wildly off course. Caught in an unremitting struggle for survival, both the crew and the ship will be tested as never before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on detailed research into an actual event, Richard Hughes’s tale of high suspense on the high seas is an extraordinary story of men under pressure and the unexpected ways they prove their mettle—or crack. Yet the originality, art, and greatness of \u003ci\u003eIn Hazard\u003c\/i\u003e stem from something else: Hughes’s eerie fascination with the hurricane itself, the inhuman force around which this wrenching tale of humanity at its limits revolves. Hughes channels the furies of sea and sky into a piece of writing that is both apocalyptic and analytic. \u003ci\u003eIn Hazard\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable, defining work of modern adventure.\" 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.\" --\u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eIn Hazard\u003c\/i\u003e, now equipped with an excellent introduction by John Crowley... The novel is superb.\" --Katharine Powers, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To take the same subject as Conrad in \u003ci\u003eTyphoon \u003c\/i\u003ewould be foolhardy if it were not so triumphantly justified.\" -Graham Greene \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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...\u003ci\u003eIn Hazard \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Richard Hughes...has done another magnificent saga of the sea in this novel which inevitably calls to mind Conrad's \u003ci\u003eTyphoon, \u003c\/i\u003enot 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.\" -\u003ci\u003eNorth American Fiction Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn Hazard \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\" —\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The most intense reading experience of the year-easily-was discovering Richard Hughes's 1938 novel, \u003ci\u003eIn Hazard\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Every bit the equal of \u003ci\u003ePerfect Storm\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\u003cb\u003eRichard Hughes \u003c\/b\u003e(1900—1976) attended Oxford and lived for most of his life in a castle in Wales. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Fox in the Attic, The Wooden Shepherdess\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA High Wind in Jamaica.\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Crowley\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including \u003ci\u003eLove \u0026amp; Sleep, Aegypt\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLittle, Big\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in northern Massachusetts with his wife and twin daughters.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300055994597,"sku":"NP9781590172728","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590172728.jpg?v=1767729920","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/in-hazard-isbn-9781590172728","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}