Although orphaned when still a small child, he has long been swaddled in the privileged world of the Anglo-American aristocracy. Morgan's inability to fully comprehend what is happening is hardly surprising. fluttered the fingers of my raised hand as though we were both guests at a social function.'' In a strange way, they are: the death rites not only for a ship but for an entire way That his right shoe is still ''inexplicably shiny with polish.'' A fellow passenger is standing at the rail, buffing his glasses: ''The night was so still, the sea so calm, the moment so out of step with The New York Times: Book Review Search ArticleīERYL BAINBRIDGE'S latest novel, ''Every Man for Himself,'' opens with an enticing combination of the dramatic and the mundane: Morgan, the narrator, is preparing to jump from the deck of the rapidly sinking Titanic when he notices
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