Sena Jeter Naslund
Paperback | Pages: 704 pages Rating: 4.03 | 42204 Users | 2646 Reviews
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| Title | : | Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer |
| Author | : | Sena Jeter Naslund |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 704 pages |
| Published | : | August 2nd 2005 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published September 22nd 1999) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. Adult Fiction. Novels. Literary Fiction |
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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.List Books During Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
| ISBN: | 0060838744 (ISBN13: 9780060838744) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Captain Ahab, Frederick Douglass, Una Spenser, Kit Sparrow, Giles Bonebright |
| Setting: | United States of America |
| Literary Awards: | Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2001), Book Sense Book of the Year Award Nominee for Adult (2000), Alabama Author Award for Fiction (2001) |
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Ratings: 4.03 From 42204 Users | 2646 ReviewsCommentary Appertaining To Books Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
A very complex read. I learned that sailor's historically wore golden earrings because wherever they died the earring would pay for their burial.I learned about survival of one sort or another: sustenance living on a remote farm in Kentucky; sustenance living at the site of a lighthouse; sustenance living on a whaler and sustenance living while stranded on a raft with two men you love and others. Ah me.There was, of course, my fascination with the houses that Ahab's wife lived within. The cabin,I really, really disliked this book, which I feel is saying a lot. I can't remember the last time I was ready for a book to be over when I was only halfway through it. I was intrigued by the premise. In this book we are given the story of Ahab's wife, Una. Ahab, if that name isn't familiar, is the obsessed whaleboat captain in Moby Dick. As I think about it now, the title is a bit misleading. I would say that only 1/3 to 1/4 of the book actually spends time on Una's marriage with Ahab. I
Whoa-finally finished this baby. Reading this is quite an investment in time; at least 1000 words could easily be sliced out to create a more coherent epic. Word of warning; whenever you have a novel, based on an american classic (and an infamously difficult one at that) written by an english professor, you can expect literary symbolism to abound. In this case, I think the author gets caught up in her own cleverness; she throws everything but the kitchen sink at us. Freedom or "Liberty" seem to
I had seen Melkis review on this book and it was so interesting, even though her rating was not that high, and so I purchased it. Melki just has a way with reviews"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last. Yet, looking up into the clouds I conjure him there: his gray-white hair; his gathered brow; and the zaggy markThis was the beginning of the book and the words were more or less meaningless to me then but I continued; well they were just words and so I started skim-reading, came
I wasn't sure if I was going to enjoy this book when I first started reading it, but I really did. The book is a long one (nearly 700 pages, if memory serves), but it's rather engrossing. For me, it didn't have a section where I had to force myself to continue reading because I was bored (that sometimes happens to me). The characters are appealing, the plot is engaging (a little unbelievable at times, but I think that was intentional), and it's well-written. I particularly enjoyed what I would
Awful book--- the author is trying way too hard to be a haughty, serious writer. The sentence structure is ridiculous - the characters flat and the end result is a scattered jumble of words put together in an attempt to impress rather than tell a story. This is filled with overly verbose, superfluous hyberpole that meanders endlessly through each and every paragraph. It ends up like the worst writing assignment gone bad-- the author has no filter, no ability to focus. Instead, the reader is
Captain Ahab was not my first husband nor my last.Oh come on. Of course I had to quote the first line.This book is derived from a single, glancing reference in Moby-Dick to the beautiful young woman Captain Ahab has married. This is Una Spencers story, in her own words. The book is massive, complex, written as a companion, a tribute, an argument, a twentieth-century female response to a nineteenth-century male book. Its couched in the Moby-Dick style, from the choppy chapters to the capital R
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