Buy this book on-line BAINBRIDGE**, BERYL: : EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELFLONDON.GERALD DUCKWORTH & CO LTD.,1996. ISBN 0715627333.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with white lettering,rear panel with author's b/w portrait photograph; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top front corner has a small closed tear and the book is lightly cocked.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-224pp [paginated] includes a prologue,6 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,and prologue+chapter separator pages.
On Wednesday April 10th 1912,R.M.S. Titanic left Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York.Four days later,half an hour before midnight,she struck an iceberg.By 2 a.m. the last lifeboat had rowed frantically away. Then,within only twenty minutes,the great ship had sunk and 1500 peope had lost their lives.
'Every Man for Himself' recaptures those four crucial days lost with the ship.Never has Beryl Bainbridge's spare,laconic style of writing been used to better advantage.No word is wasted to convey the intensity of emotion and the fatality of the journey.
The story is told by Morgan,the young nephew of the owner of the shipping line,his fate linked to a Jewsh tailor from Manchester,a deserted opera singer and the mysterius Scurra.Was the Titanic,despite repeated ice warnings,travelling too fast? Why was she issued with a certificate of seaworthiness when there was a fire blazing in the stoke hold of No.10 bunker? And why did Scurra,long before tragedy struck,remark that it was 'every man for himself'?
Beryl Bainbridge's countless admirers have waited five years for a new novel. They will not be disappointed.
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