Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer: A Novel, (Paperback)

from PhoenixTerran

My mom doesn't buy many books, preferring to take advantage of public, and other people's, libraries. But Ahab's Wife she fell in love with and wanted to take her time enjoying (it being a rather hefty tome), so purchased a copy when it was still only available in hardcover. Several years later, ...

from EBT1002

"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last." Thus opens this sweeping novel of the infamous Captain Ahab's wife, Una. Starting in a Kentucky cabin in deepest winter and ending on the windswept eastern edge of Nantucket, the novel takes us through the middle part of the 19th century, u...

from ddirmeyer

A beautifully crafted novel telling the story of Captain Ahab's wife, Una. Although I do not usually gravitate toward historical fiction, this book had me hooked from the beginning. It is a timeless tale of women and their struggles which, although rather long in scope, read like a much shorter b...

from ATechwreck

An excellent book until the last 100 pages or so. The beginning of this story of an independent woman coming of age in New England is wonderful; full of humor, drama and atmosphere. You are transported from the Kentucky woods, to an island lighthouse, then onto a whaling ship and finally to Nantu...

from artistlibrarian

Though it was a national bestseller, I had never heard of this book or its author before coming across it at yet another of my used book sales. It won many awards so I threw it in my $5-a-brown-bag. I usually assume awards are a clear sign of good literature and this premise yet again did not fai...