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Beryl Bainbridge


Every Man for Himself

Category: Fiction | Published: 1996 | Review Added: Unknown

Rating: 3 - Worth reading

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.

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