CAPTAIN'S BEACH

by Sigrid de Lima ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 6, 1950

In a prose which is stylised, imagistic and in contrast to the content, this is a strange, suggestive and rather inconclusive story of lives ineffectual against the background in which they move. This is that of a cheerless New York rooming house run by the Mortlooks:-Mrs. Mortlook, a mass of flesh, ailing and embittered by the death of a young son many years ago; Mortlook- who finds an occasional escape in local bars; Lisa, their daughter, subdued and sensitive; and Taylor, their new roomer, a young man with a limp who is an immediate target for Mrs. Mortlook's hopes for Lisa. Becoming engaged to Lisa, Taylor retreats a first time, comes back again just after an accident in which Mortlook is invalided, just before the death of Mrs. Mortlook, and it is after the funeral of Mrs. Mortlook that Taylor runs away a second time- never to return... A first novel, with a certain talent but with little likelihood of attracting a general audience.

Pub Date: Feb. 6, 1950

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Scribner

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1950

Categories: FICTION