Word: compatriot
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...unlikely candidate has addressed himself to this huge task: Richard Hughes, a 62-year-old Welshman, known mainly for a single, classic novel published in 1929, A High Wind in Jamaica (called The Innocent Voyage in the U.S.). Since then, like his compatriot, E. M. Forster, he has become a conspicuous example of that 20th century phenomenon, the great novelist who does not write novels. The Fox in the Attic, his first novel in 24 years, is the first installment of a grand design, The Human Predicament, intended as a fictional study of the demonic forces that shattered the ancient...