Trade paperback edition in good condition.
“Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last.”
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.
Read Alikes for Ahab’s Wife: The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See; Inez of My Soul by Isabel Allende; The Color Purple by Alice Walker; Circe by Madeline Miller; Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
Trade paperback edition in good condition.
“Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last.”
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.
Read Alikes for Ahab’s Wife: The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See; Inez of My Soul by Isabel Allende; The Color Purple by Alice Walker; Circe by Madeline Miller; Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
ISBN 978-0-06-083874-4
Sena Naslund
1999
