Ahab's Wife

Or, the Star Gazer

by Herman Melville; Sena Jeter Naslund

This meticulously researched historical novel, based on an obscure reference in MOBY-DICK to Ahab's wife, is the story of Una Spenser, who runs away to sea disguised as a boy, survives the wreck of a whale ship, and marries a handsome older man named Ahab before he becomes destroyed by his obsession with the white whale.

Available editions of Ahab's Wife

	9780060838744, Paperback, Perennial, 2005 $1.00 (Very Good ) Other copies of 9780060838744

	9780688177850, Paperback, Harpercollins, 2000 $1.00 (Very Good ) Other copies of 9780688177850

	9780671046446, Audio Cassette, Simon & Schuster, 1999 $8.66 (Used - Good) Other copies of 9780671046446

	9780688171872, Hardcover, Harpercollins, 1999 $1.00 (Very Good ) Other copies of 9780688171872

Publisher Notes

"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 Capt. Ahab's wife. Illustrations throughout.

Media Reviews

"That Naslund is unstintingly reasonable, empathetic and kind should not, however, blind one to the fact that she is, in the most nonaggressive way, rewriting American history, revising American literature and critiquing traditional masculinity....The book insists on happiness, sometimes to the exclusion of even the most generous reading of history. But why not? Men have got rich from their big harpoons and mythic beasts and improbable heroics. Don't women deserve their own fantastic voyages?"

First Line

Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last.

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