Every Man for Himself is a 1996 novel by Beryl Bainbridge about the 1912 RMS Titanic disaster. The novel won the 1996 Whitbread Prize , and was a nominee of the Booker Prize . ^[1] It also won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Europe and South Asia) .

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The novel is narrated by 22-year-old Morgan, a rich young American orphan who is a relation of banker J. P. Morgan , having been brought up by his aunt and cousin. The book is divided into four sections, each one corresponding to a day Morgan spends on the RMS Titanic . He provides a lively account of the middle-class to upper-class passengers found on the luxury liner, while finding time to fall in love with spoilt young socialite Wallis Ellery. Leading figures in the tragedy appear prominently including Captain Smith , naval architect Thomas Andrews and White Star Line owner J. Bruce Ismay . The narrator finally makes his way to a collapsible lifeboat after the sinking of the Titanic , and is rescued by the crew of Carpathia .

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