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"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last." This is destined to be remembered as one of the most-recognized first sentences in literature--along with "Call me Ishmael." Sena Jeter Naslund has created an completely new universe with a transcendent heroine at its center who will be every bit as memorable as Captain Ahab. Ahab's Wife is a novel over a grand scale that can legitimately be called a masterpiece: beautifully written, filled up with humanity and wisdom, rich in historical detail, real and evocative. Melville's spirit informs every page of her tour de force. Una Spenser's marriage to Captain Ahab is obviously a crucial aspect in the narrative of Ahab's Wife, but the story covers vastly more territory. After having a spellbinding opening scene, the tale flashes back to Una's childhood in Kentucky; her idyllic adolescence with her aunt and uncle's family at a lighthouse near New Bedford; her adventures disguised as a cabin boy over a whaling ship; her first marriage to a fellow survivor who descends into violent madness; courtship and marriage to Ahab; life as mother and a rich captain's wife in Nantucket; involvement with Frederick Douglass; and a guy who's in Nantucket researching his novel about his adventures on her ex-husband's ship. Ahab's Wife is a breathtaking, magnificent, and uplifting story of one woman's spiritual journey, informed by the spirit of the best American novel, but taking it beyond tragedy to redemptive triumph. "Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last." This is destined to be remembered as one of the most-recognized first sentences in literature--along with "Call me Ishmael." Sena Jeter Naslund has created an completely new universe with a transcendent heroine at its center who will be every bit as memorable as Captain Ahab.Ahab's Wife is a novel over a grand scale that can legitimately be called a masterpiece: beautifully written, filled up with humanity and wisdom, rich in historical detail, real and evocative. Melville's spirit informs every page of her tour de force.Una Spenser's marriage to Captain Ahab is obviously a crucial aspect in the narrative of Ahab's Wife, but the story covers vastly more territory. After having a spellbinding opening scene, the tale flashes back to Una's childhood in Kentucky; her idyllic adolescence with her aunt and uncle's family at a lighthouse near New Bedford; her adventures disguised as a cabin boy over a whaling ship; her first marriage to a fellow survivor who descends into violent madness; courtship and marriage to Ahab; life as mother and a rich captain's wife in Nantucket; involvement with Frederick Douglass; and a guy who's in Nantucket researching his novel about his adventures on her ex-husband's ship.Ahab's Wife is a breathtaking, magnificent, and uplifting story of one woman's spiritual journey, informed by the spirit of the best American novel, but taking it beyond tragedy to redemptive triumph."Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last." This is destined to be remembered as one of the most-recognized first sentences in literature--along with "Call me Ishmael." Sena Jeter Naslund has created an completely new universe with a transcendent heroine at its center who will be every bit as memorable as Captain Ahab.Ahab's Wife is a novel over a grand scale that can legitimately be called a masterpiece: beautifully written, filled up with humanity and wisdom, rich in historical detail, real and evocative. Melville's spirit informs every page of her tour de force.Una Spenser's marriage to Captain Ahab is obviously a crucial aspect in the narrative of Ahab's Wife, but the story covers vastly more territory. After having a spellbinding opening scene, the tale flashes back to Una's childhood in Kentucky; her idyllic adolescence with her aunt and uncle's family at a lighthouse near New Bedford; her adventures disguised as a cabin boy over a whaling ship; her first marriage to a fellow survivor who descends into violent madness; courtship and marriage to Ahab; life as mother and a rich captain's wife in Nantucket; involvement with Frederick Douglass; and a guy who's in Nantucket researching his novel about his adventures on her ex-husband's ship.Ahab's Wife is a breathtaking, magnificent, and uplifting story of one woman's spiritual journey, informed by the spirit of the best American novel, but taking it beyond tragedy to redemptive triumph.
