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Title: Every Man for Himself
Author: Beryl Bainbridge
Narrator: Kerry Shale
Format: Abridged
Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-08-13
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
The Whitbread Novel of the Year, read by the winner of the Sony Radio Award. A sophisticated look at the passions and intrigues, hopes and fears of the doomed souls who boarded the Titanic for her final, fateful voyage.
Critic Reviews:
"Kerry Shale, surely one of the most versatile of voices, brings all the pensive wit of the text to the fore." (Irish Times)
"This is one of those rare literary events that can be unequivocally recommended with confidence to any reader or listener. Kerry Shale reads brilliantly, adding another to his growing list of audiobook triumphs. (Oxford Times)
Members Reviews:
Weird people, no one I could identify with...
I bought Every Man for Himself because I LOVE tales about the Titanic. When I read the reviews on the back cover, I expected to be as swept away as they sounded. It started out confusing, and the characters were just so unlikable. I simply could not connect with the characters or story at all. I gave up.
Every Man for Himself
This short, almost restrained, novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Prize when published in 1996. It tells the story of Morgan, a relative of J.P. Morgan, who feels, "destined to be a participant rather than a spectator of singular events". When a man dies in his arms shortly before he is to return to the States, he leaves his uncle's house almost secretly (a stolen picture of his mother tucked away) and gets the milk train to Southampton. For the young man is surely about to participate in a major world event by boarding Titanic on her maiden voyage.
Although we are soon aware that Morgan is not quite the same as his upper class friends, he fits seamlessly into first class. His family background is slightly troubled, unknown, but then other passengers have their secrets too. What is interesting about this novel is the way Bainbridge shows how all these people are almost trapped together - a large, unhappy family. They travel to the same places, went to the same schools, shared social lives and even mistresses. The novel cleverly tells the story of life aboard, with all the little intrigues, love affairs and gossip. The author uses many real life characters - Lady Duff Gordon, Thomas Andrews, Bruce Ismay and Astor populate the pages, but as we know what is coming that overshadows everything that happens. This really is a clever read, which recreates life on board and the pressure these young men were under when calamity happened to be brave and not get in a 'funk'; when to be a man was to feel shame at surviving.
Lots of nobs, the Astors, the Guggenheims, the Strauses & many more. All
aboard for the maiden voyage. The Morgans are represented by the narrator. I'm really not into novels but this is a historical novel on an irresistible subject the Titanic. Sadly, Beryl Bainbringe's recent passing reminded me of how I enjoyed her work, such as Young Adolf, written back in the seventies. Ms Bainbringe gently chides the first class passengers for their arrogance & total lack of awareness for anything except their own comfort. There are those whose wealth is created by dint of their own efforts. There is a much larger group who came into their wealth the old-fashioned way, they inherited it. They are mostly indolent & aimless. Morgan is a bit different. Orphaned as a infant, he was adopted as a nephew into the family of the fabulously wealthy J.P. Morgan.
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Title: Every Man for Himself
Author: Beryl Bainbridge
Narrator: Kerry Shale
Format: Abridged
Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-08-13
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
The Whitbread Novel of the Year, read by the winner of the Sony Radio Award. A sophisticated look at the passions and intrigues, hopes and fears of the doomed souls who boarded the Titanic for her final, fateful voyage.
Critic Reviews:
"Kerry Shale, surely one of the most versatile of voices, brings all the pensive wit of the text to the fore." (Irish Times)
"This is one of those rare literary events that can be unequivocally recommended with confidence to any reader or listener. Kerry Shale reads brilliantly, adding another to his growing list of audiobook triumphs. (Oxford Times)
Members Reviews:
Weird people, no one I could identify with...
I bought Every Man for Himself because I LOVE tales about the Titanic. When I read the reviews on the back cover, I expected to be as swept away as they sounded. It started out confusing, and the characters were just so unlikable. I simply could not connect with the characters or story at all. I gave up.
Every Man for Himself
This short, almost restrained, novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Prize when published in 1996. It tells the story of Morgan, a relative of J.P. Morgan, who feels, "destined to be a participant rather than a spectator of singular events". When a man dies in his arms shortly before he is to return to the States, he leaves his uncle's house almost secretly (a stolen picture of his mother tucked away) and gets the milk train to Southampton. For the young man is surely about to participate in a major world event by boarding Titanic on her maiden voyage.
Although we are soon aware that Morgan is not quite the same as his upper class friends, he fits seamlessly into first class. His family background is slightly troubled, unknown, but then other passengers have their secrets too. What is interesting about this novel is the way Bainbridge shows how all these people are almost trapped together - a large, unhappy family. They travel to the same places, went to the same schools, shared social lives and even mistresses. The novel cleverly tells the story of life aboard, with all the little intrigues, love affairs and gossip. The author uses many real life characters - Lady Duff Gordon, Thomas Andrews, Bruce Ismay and Astor populate the pages, but as we know what is coming that overshadows everything that happens. This really is a clever read, which recreates life on board and the pressure these young men were under when calamity happened to be brave and not get in a 'funk'; when to be a man was to feel shame at surviving.
Lots of nobs, the Astors, the Guggenheims, the Strauses & many more. All
aboard for the maiden voyage. The Morgans are represented by the narrator. I'm really not into novels but this is a historical novel on an irresistible subject the Titanic. Sadly, Beryl Bainbringe's recent passing reminded me of how I enjoyed her work, such as Young Adolf, written back in the seventies. Ms Bainbringe gently chides the first class passengers for their arrogance & total lack of awareness for anything except their own comfort. There are those whose wealth is created by dint of their own efforts. There is a much larger group who came into their wealth the old-fashioned way, they inherited it. They are mostly indolent & aimless. Morgan is a bit different. Orphaned as a infant, he was adopted as a nephew into the family of the fabulously wealthy J.P. Morgan.