by Sena Jeter Naslund · HarpPeren · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780688177850
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«Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer» is the historical novel by Sena Jeter Naslund, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (688 pages, in English).
Starting from a brief passage in Moby-Dick, the story follows Una Spenser from the Kentucky frontier to a New England island, where she falls in love with two young men. Disguised as a boy, she boards a whaling ship and there meets Captain Ahab; the novel recreates their marriage and the life of an independent woman in the nineteenth century.
The novel was nominated for the Orange Prize, won the Alabama Author Award, and was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book.
For readers of historical and literary fiction, especially those seeking retellings of classics with female protagonists.
Sena Jeter Naslund is an American writer. She has published seven novels and two collections of short fiction. Her 1999 novel, Ahab's Wife, and her 2003 novel, Four Spirits, were each named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She is the Writer in Residence at University of Louisville and was the program director for the MFA in Writing at Spalding University in the same city. In 2005, Governor Ernie Fletcher named Naslund Poet Laureate of Kentucky.
