Every Man For Himself (Winner Of Whitbread Book Awards)
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Description:
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageways are played out the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers, their fate sealed in prose of startling, sublime beauty, as Beryl B...
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageways are played out the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers, their fate sealed in prose of startling, sublime beauty, as Beryl B...
Description:
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageways are played out the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers, their fate sealed in prose of startling, sublime beauty, as Beryl Bainbridge's haunting masterpiece moves inexorably to its known and terrible end.
Review:
*'Extraordinary . . . a wholly new and highly individual work of art . . . beautifully written' INDEPENDENT * *'Marvellous . . . exquisite pacing . . . stunning descriptions' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY * 'A narrative both sparkling and deep . . . the cost of raising [the Titanic] is prohibitive; Bainbridge does the next best thing' SUNDAY TIMES * 'Bainbridge's masterpiece' EVENING STANDARD
Prizes:
Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Novel Category 1996.
Winner of Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best Book Eurasia 1997.
Shortlisted for Booker Prize for Fiction 1996.
Author Biography:
Beryl Bainbridge is one of the greatest living novelists. Author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television, she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and has won many literary awards including the Whitbread Prize and the Author of the Year Award at the British Book Awards.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageways are played out the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers, their fate sealed in prose of startling, sublime beauty, as Beryl Bainbridge's haunting masterpiece moves inexorably to its known and terrible end.
Review:
*'Extraordinary . . . a wholly new and highly individual work of art . . . beautifully written' INDEPENDENT * *'Marvellous . . . exquisite pacing . . . stunning descriptions' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY * 'A narrative both sparkling and deep . . . the cost of raising [the Titanic] is prohibitive; Bainbridge does the next best thing' SUNDAY TIMES * 'Bainbridge's masterpiece' EVENING STANDARD
Prizes:
Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Novel Category 1996.
Winner of Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best Book Eurasia 1997.
Shortlisted for Booker Prize for Fiction 1996.
Author Biography:
Beryl Bainbridge is one of the greatest living novelists. Author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television, she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and has won many literary awards including the Whitbread Prize and the Author of the Year Award at the British Book Awards.
| Autor | Bainbridge, Beryl |
|---|---|
| Ilmumisaeg | 1997 |
| Kirjastus | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Köide | Pehmekaaneline |
| Bestseller | Ei |
| Lehekülgede arv | 224 |
| Pikkus | 197 |
| Laius | 197 |
| Keel | English |
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