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Beryl Bainbridge
Every Man for Himself
Category: Fiction | Published: 1996 | Review Added: Unknown
A story about the Titanic.
Successfully conveys a sense of doom, as a group of Brits with too much money play emotional chess with each other on the ill-fated voyage.
While the emotional entanglements of the characters are convincingly portrayed, I felt the novel lacked focus. I assume the title is implying that in our relationships, as in a sinking ship, we're each alone and hoping to "survive" at the expense of others. But I didn't feel the parallel was very successfully established; in the end, it felt like two different novels welded rather unceremoniously together.
Still, worth reading.