Frank H. (perryfran) reviewed on 10/11/2018 + 1260 more book reviews

Every Man for Himself was first published in 1996 and is about the 1912 RMS Titanic disaster. The novel won the 1996 Whitbread Prize, and was a nominee of the Booker Prize. It is always fascinating to me to read about that fateful night in the North Atlantic when the Titanic met its doom. In this novel, the story is told from the point of view of J.P. Morgan's nephew and abounds with the aspects of the rich as they go about their black-tie dining, drinking, and illicit affairs with no knowledge of what will befall them. The story is broken up into the four days of the voyage with the climax of the sinking occurring in the last 50 pages or so.

I really did not empathize too much with the characters in this novel but overall it was worth reading for another perspective on the Titanic disaster.

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