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Author:	Beryl Bainbridge	Format:	Hardcover
Publisher:	Carroll & Graf Pub	Edition:	1
ISBN-10:	0786703490	ISBN-13:	9780786703494
Subject:	Action, Adventure	Publication Year:	1996
Topic:	--	Special Attributes:	--
Language:	English	Condition:	Very Good

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Synopsis
Beryl Bainbridge's first novel in five years is an account of the classic tragedy of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. The protagonist, a young Harvard grad with a rags-to-riches background, finds in the wreck a chance to prove himself as a man. A 1996 Booker Prize nominee.
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Length:	224 pages
Height:	9.8 in.
Width:	6.3 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	17.6 oz.

Publisher's Note
Recapturing the four crucial days prior to the sinking of the Titanic and the loss of fifteen hundred lives, this story is told from the perspective of Morgan, the American nephew of the owner of the shipping line, and reveals how his destiny is linked to other passengers.
Industry reviews
"The novel...asks good questions. Can personality affect the physical world? What is fate? Are there people who can engender disaster?...The last part of the book, and particularly the last scene..., is superb." Spectator - Jane Gardam (09/14/1996) "The atmosphere, period, architecture, the hugeness and magnificence of the great ship are wonderfully re-created....Beryl Bainbridge knows exactly what she is doing, and how to do it in masterly fashion. She has never written better, with such passion, ease and skill, such control. When I had finished the book, I read it again immediately, and got more and more out of it....The last few pages are beautiful, without a word too many or ill-chosen, and unbearably moving." Literary Review - Susan Hill "Bainbridge's story-line is a series of reminders that lives are made up of strings of coincidence and change....[Bainbridge] seems to have decided to disturb her readers without moving them....'Every Man for Himself' is not harrowing at all, though very exciting; an upmarket disaster movie, with all the thrills and terrors expertly calculated and brought off..." London Review of Books - Gabriele Annan (10/17/1996) Ms. Bainbridge has a remarkable gift for evoking the manners and thinking of people of another time through unobtrusive detail and subtle control of style....The novel is a fine tale and a fine glimpse of a world bound for disaster." Atlantic Monthly - Phoebe-Lou Adams "Ms. Bainbridge invents a cast of characters who mingle with some of the real-life passengers and crew in the days, hours, and minutes before the great ship goes down. The story is filtered through the sensibility of a naive upper-class young man related to J.P. Morgan, a major investor in the shipping line....Here, as in her other novels inspired by historical events or personages (Scott's doomed polar expedition in 'The Birthday Boys', the adolescent Hitler in 'Young Adolf'), Ms. Bainbridge relies on the inherent drama of the subject matter to breathe life into her stagy animation. Once again, she has written a novel that takes more from history than it gives back." Wall Street Journal - Merle Rubin (11/15/1996) "[I]t is difficult to imagine a more engrossing account of the famous shipwreck than this one." New York Times Book Review - Janet Kaye (12/22/1996) "Bainbridge doesn't always find the perfect balance between Morgan's introspective story...and the familiar Titanic epic, and this lacks the gripping quality of her finest historical fictions. But her gift for lean yet resonant narration--vivid details and images, startling dialogue, telling anecdotes--remains one of modern fiction's marvels, and at its best this bildüngsroman-at-sea (with more than a few echoes of Conrad) casts a dark, doomy spell." Kirkus (08/15/1996)

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0786703490
Title : Every Man for Himself
EAN : 9780786703494
Authors : Beryl Bainbridge
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
Publication Date : 1996-10
Pages : 224
List Price (MSRP) : 21.00
Height : 1.0000 inches
Width : 6.1000 inches
Length : 9.1000 inches
Weight : 1.1000 pounds
Keywords : British, Contemporary
Condition : Very Good

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