Walter Lord, A Night to Remember
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Lord, Walter. A Night to Remember. First Edition. 1955. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition—endpapers show foxing, and jacket spine shows fraying and a puncture concealed with a facsimile underlay.
It is difficult to imagine but when Walter Lord wrote this book in 1955, the sinking of the Titanic was all but forgotten. Lord had been obsessed by the story since he was a child, captivated not only by the collision of a ship with an iceberg but that of luxury with catastrophe. It was a groundbreaking book, and though Truman Capote was credited with inventing the nonfiction novel a decade later with In Cold Blood, this book is written with equal emphasis on narrative. It has never been out of print, and it so captured the public’s imagination that it inspired one of the highest grossing films of all time.
“If this supreme achievement was terribly fragile, what about everything else? If wealth meant so little on this cold April night, did it mean so much the rest of the year?”
--Walter Lord
It is difficult to imagine but when Walter Lord wrote this book in 1955, the sinking of the Titanic was all but forgotten. Lord had been obsessed by the story since he was a child, captivated not only by the collision of a ship with an iceberg but that of luxury with catastrophe. It was a groundbreaking book, and though Truman Capote was credited with inventing the nonfiction novel a decade later with In Cold Blood, this book is written with equal emphasis on narrative. It has never been out of print, and it so captured the public’s imagination that it inspired one of the highest grossing films of all time.
“If this supreme achievement was terribly fragile, what about everything else? If wealth meant so little on this cold April night, did it mean so much the rest of the year?”
--Walter Lord
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