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Author: Beryl BainbridgeFormat: Softcover
Publisher: Carroll & Graf PubEdition: 2
ISBN-10: 0786704675ISBN-13: 9780786704675
Category: --Publication Year: 1997
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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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In her latest novel, the author of "The Birthday Boys" dramatizes the night of April 15, 1912, when 1,500 people lost their lives after the world's greatest luxury liner--the invincible "Titanic"--sank on her miaden voyage.

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"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)


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Every Man for Himself (Bainbridge, Beryl)

Beryl Bainbridge

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Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Good
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ISBN: 0786704675
Publication Date: 1997-08-22
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Pages: 224
Height: 0.7000 inches
Width: 5.5000 inches
Weight: 0.6000 pounds

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