Ship Island the Story of a Mermaid

Author: Elizabeth Spencer

Year: 1968

Reviewed by: Mr. Italo Perazzoli

Reading  Ship Island I found some perplexities, because I did not found a clear plot, for instance  who is Nancy?  is she the mermaid?

In its complexity the architecture of this tale is well detailed in particular the description of the environments.

I think that the most significative line  is the following:

"The French book was lying open on a corner of the dining room table, between the floor lamp and the window"

Immediately then  I felt the sensation of being trapped in that book where the time has been stopped by a supernatural force, the only thing that I was able to do was watching outside the window the flow of the other live.

Continuing in the reading I noticed that there are some poetical passages.


Cheers

Italo