Full name: Ahab's Wife or, The Star-Gazer

Author: Sena Jeter Naslund Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Award winners Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads OpenLibrary Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780060838744 0060838744

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. Similar books: Four Spirits by Sena Jeter Naslund Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult Viking Tales by Jennie Hall Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George Rules of Civility by Amor Towles Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman London by Edward Rutherfurd The Son by Philipp Meyer Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George