In Gift from the Sea Lindbergh returns to a setting familiar to her since childhood summers spent in Maine. Within this familiar landscape, Lindbergh relies on a simple descriptive style and poetic metaphor to create her narrative.
Originally written as a series of essays, Lindbergh reshapes this journalistic style into a stream-of-consciousness format that dissolves the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction. Her use of natural imagery and the singular narrative voice establishes a simplicity that accomplishes empathy and intimacy between reader and narrator. The metaphor provided by the seashells subtly expresses her social concerns.
The simplicity she achieves is the deceptive result of a disciplined.....
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