Ahab's Wife - Or, The Star-gazer: A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Sena Jeter Naslund is a cofounder and program director of the Spalding University (Louisville) brief-residency MFA in Writing! where she edits The Louisville Review and Fleur-de-Lis Press. A winner of the Harper Lee Award and the Southeastern Library Association Fiction award! she is the author of eight previous works of fiction! including Ahab's Wife ! a finalist for the Orange Prize. She recently retired from her position as Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Louisville. Klappentext "Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last." An epic-scale! brilliant and compelling saga! inspired by a brief passage in "Moby Dick!" chronicles the life of Captain Ahab's wife. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Sena Jeter Naslund
• Assisted by: Christopher Wormell (Illustration)
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2009
• EAN: 9780061767654
• ISBN: 978-0-06-176765-4
• No. of pages: 704
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 45 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: General, FICTION: Historical / General, DRAMA: Women Authors, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Coming of Age, FICTION: Sea Stories, FICTION: Classics, FICTION: Romance / New Adult