Every Man for Himself
If ever a subject and a writer were perfectly matched it is here. The fated voyage of the Titanic, with its heroics and horror, has been dramatized many times before, but never by an artist with the skills and sensibility of Beryl Bainbridge. Bainbridge vividly recreates each scene of the...
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If ever a subject and a writer were perfectly matched it is here. The fated voyage of the Titanic, with its heroics and horror, has been dramatized many times before, but never by an artist with the skills and sensibility of Beryl Bainbridge. Bainbridge vividly recreates each scene of the voyage, from the suspicious fire in the Number 10 coal bunker, to the champange and crystal of the first-class public rooms, to that terrible midnight chaos in the frigid North Atlantic. This is remarkable, haunting tale substantiates Bainbridge as a consummate observer of the human condition.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781609450861 (1609450868)
Publish date: March 27th 2012
Publisher: Europa Editions
Pages no: 201
Edition language: English
Generally, Beryl Bainbridge seemed like a very nice person, who apparently worked as a professional theatre reviewer without ever giving a bad review. It's my guess that she took rejection hard, since a romance gone very bad and a detail from her own autobiography seem to coincide in this book.She a...
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