Landfall Author:Helen Hull Landfall tells of the struggle to sight land on that most difficult of voyages, the emotional relation between a man, Clif, and a woman, Anice. Anice had been a woman capable of passion but too ego-centered to be capable of love. She was suffering from a a fairly common contemporary disease, a hardening of the emotional arteries, which can be fa... more »tal tot he growth of personality into warmth and maturity. The voyage starts in the doldrums of Clif's indifference and hostility toward Anice and of Anice's resentment and ennui of Clif. A series of shocks carries them both out of the doldrums into strange seas of doubt and fear, in which they uncover emotions and move from the shallowness of self-absorption into deeper regions of feeling.« less