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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.
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After taking on the ill-fated Scott expedition to the South Pole in her previous book, The Birthday Boys, the novelist tackles a much larger 1912 disaster: the sinking of the Titanic. The narrator, a 22-year-old named Morgan, brushes up against real-life victims such as John James Astor early in the voyage, while falling in love with the beautiful and unobtainable Wallis Ellery. The deadly maiden voyage of the world's largest ocean liner becomes a journey of self-discovery in this portentous, postmodern work, short-listed for the 1996 Booker Prize.
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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)
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)
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- ISBN 10 0351314903
- ISBN 13 9780351314902
- BindingHardcover
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