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false <![CDATA[In Hazard]]> 2376114 6 With In Hazard, a thrilling tale of disaster on the high seas, NYRB Classics is proud to bring back into print all four novels by Richard Hughes, one of the masters of twentieth-century fiction. Richard Hughes’s first novel, A High Wind in Jamaica–one of the Modern Library’s one hundred best novels of the century–describes a family of children taken captive by pirates, and shows that what happens on their adventure is no more tumultuous and primal than their own inner natures. In Hazard moves from the world of childhood into that of adulthood and continues Hughes’s exploration of human nature in extremis. The Archimedes is a steamship that is as shipshape as human ingenuity can make it, but all its modern technology isn’t enough to save it when an unbelievably savage storm strikes. In fact, when machines fail technology turns out to be a pact with the devil: the result is a ship you can’t row with mere manpower; a rudder too heavy to move; no way for a carpenter to rig up a mast. All that remains is the human spirit. Hero and coward, master and servant aren’t always what they seem to be as the life-or-death struggle reveals what lies within their souls and tightens or unravels the bonds between them. As well as In Hazard and A High Wind in Jamaica, the two novels that comprise Hughes’s unfinished trilogy, the Human Predicament–The Fox in the Attic and The Wooden Shepherdess–are also available from NYRB Classics. 2383024 1938 In Hazard total:28|5:3|4:8|3:11|2:4|1:2| 28 90 58 13 2 1 false false Thu May 15 22:36:43 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 22:36:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 20:51:59 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 13:56:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Oct 23 10:28:17 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 10:28:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Aug 04 12:31:53 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 12:31:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 09:37:39 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 23 07:47:43 -0700 2008 1 0 false false Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 02 18:18:43 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 23 23:13:29 -0700 2009
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