I mean, she even finds a way to work in Hawthrone and Emerson having a crush on her. In Moby Dick, Ahab briefly mentions her. It was recommended to me by someone on Facebook but I can’t remeber who (was it you?
I am convinced she read Moby Dick one night, went to sleep and had one of those crazy meandering dreams where things she saw on the news and famous peopleI COULD NOT STAND this book - it was torture for me to get through. I loved the build-up of this novel - knowing that Una will eventually marry Ahab, but not knowing how that will come about made for a great sense of anticipation. This book, however, proceeds in a completely different tenor, narrated by the young girl with a love for the sea who will become his wife. I had to go back through the book and hunt down the one sentence where she’s mentioned.
Epic. The book, however, is not for the faint of heart. No, it is not Jezebel of the Bible, but the wife of Captain Ahab, he who is obsessed with the great white whale, Moby Dick, who has taken his leg. I was mesmerized “Is time an orphan?” The author's beautiful phraseology and skilled storytelling of early 19th c. American life centered around whaling, the allure and treachery of oceans, and recall Quaker ideals, slavery, women's rights of histories I have read. But finish it I did. Background has researched every area so well that it is all seamless. . Too long, too detailed, and monotonous in tone. I read Moby Dick, and I have NO memory of Ahab having a wife, lol. Reading this is quite an investment in time; at least 1000 words could easily be sliced out to create a more coherent epic. Ahab's Wife By Sena Jeter Naslund HarperCollins 704 pp., $15.95 The family she lives with has fascinating, involved conversations and the characters are tolerant, amenable and warm. I particularly enjoyed what I would gI wasn't sure if I was going to enjoy this book when I first started reading it, but I really did. Whoa-finally finished this baby. A novel I read in high school, The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, had the same kind of basis (took a minor biblical character and told her life story), and I loved that book wholeheartedly. She is flawed, which is in large part what makes her interesting. Though the 700 pages might be daunting……they could get a fair start!Hi Laureen, thank you for the review. Didn't realize it was written in 1999, it seems like it was just written. I kept hoping she would do something mean spirited like tell the dwarf to go find a woman or cease talking to her neighbor because he was a too into china cups. In what ways is Una's story a product of the times in which she lives? ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️I do not remember you giving any read 5 stars…I am going to recommend this book as one of our bookstore 2019. The author did not take any chances with our affections making sure that she was a woman who accepted obscurities, defied religious beliefs, encouraged women's rights, befriended a slave and a dwarf as equals, could argue with the champions of transcendentalist even though she grew up on a tiny island with two adults and a four year old. I recommend it for anyone who loves to dive into history in a very personal way. That's way before Ahab even enters the story, but c'est la vie, poppet.Take my advice: read the first 100 pages of this (can't give you a really accurate count, unfortunately), and then stop, STOP, FOR THE LOVE OF GOODNESS, STOP, before the main character gets on the ship, or at least midway through, and you will be so much happier that you did, although you will forever wonder what happened and then end up disregarding my advice. The female characters are all pretty sympathetic, so we get a sense of a feminist sisterhood. Learn more at Biography.com. Nice twist.
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