Ahab's wife : or, the star-gazer / a novel by Sena Jeter Naslund ; illustrations by Christopher Wormell.
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TextPublication details: New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2009.Edition: 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics edDescription: xvii, 668 p., 16 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0061767654
- 9780061767654
- Star-gazer
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Main Library | Fiction | Adult Display - Second Floor | Naslund Sena | May Day -May 2024 | Available | 33111007089259 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A magnificent, vast, and enthralling saga, Sena Jeter Naslund's Ahab's Wife is a remarkable epic spanning a rich, eventful, and dramatic life. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby Dick, it is the story of Una, exiled as a child to live in a lighthouse, removed from the physical and emotional abuse of a religion-mad father. It is the romantic adventure of a young woman setting sail in a cabin boy's disguise to encounter darkness, wonder, and catastrophe; the story of a devoted wife who witnesses her husband's destruction by obsession and madness. Ultimately it is the powerful and moving story of a woman's triumph over tragedy and loss through her courage, creativity, and intelligence.
Inspired by Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
The adventures of Una Spenser who went to sea disguised as a cabin boy. Shipwrecked, she marries one of the survivors, then falls in love with Captain Ahab, a man obsessed with a white whale. She becomes involved in fighting slavery and in women's rights.