Ahab's Wife (Audio)
ISBN:
9780743540933 (074354093X)
Publish date: October 1st 1999
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Edition language: English
I'm not sure about this book. I did enjoy it, and some of the writing is sublime. But a significant proportion of it is long winded and for a time when minority groups weren't really treated that well, there seems to be very little by way of any bigotry experienced by Una, giving it near progressive...
This is basically Moby Dick fan fiction, with much of fan fiction's highest pleasures and one of it's most common problems. There are only a few paragraphs in Melville's Moby Dick mentioning Captain Ahab's unnamed young wife, a "sweet, resigned girl" he married at fifty, spent only one night in bed ...
This was a strange read for me, in a good way. I started reading it years ago and really disliked it. I put it back on the shelf unfinished, and never really intended to give it another try, but for some reason, I never gave it away. So, this year I picked it up, starting reading it again, loved eve...
Quite a backstory created from one of the biggest fish stories of all time.
canada to brazil to sweden to UK to canada. Here we go - Chapter 1 A Mild Blue Day:Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my lastNantucket Light Boat
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