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 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.