Ahab's Return: Or, the Last Voyage

from nancyadair

Ahab's back, looking for his wife and son. Yes, that Ahab, the crazed captain who went down with the White Whale. He miraculously survived and has finally made his way home. He turns up at the Gorgon's Mirror, a New York City tabloid newspaper, looking for Ishmael, the writer who killed Ahab off ...

from fhudnell

This was a strange mess of a book. It's not that it wasn't entertaining, but I was unable to abandon myself to this multifaceted fantasy. I found it very strange. Ahab managed to escape from the whale. After many adventures, including ghosts, a plague and an interlude of feather collecting, Ahab ...

from mrmapcase

What if Moby-Dick was a memoir rather than a novel? Ford provides a wild, fantastical ride through 18th century New York featuring Melville's famous characters brought back to life in more ways than one. Free review copy.

from abealy

In Ahab's Return, Jeffrey Ford has borrowed a handful of characters from Melville's incomparable classic to fashion a fever dream of an adventurous confection that is a "jolly" quick read; fun but forgettable. No matter - it's not trying to be a sequel to Moby Dick, and making this Ahab's story i...

from rowmyboat

Ford has transported us to the New York that was. No, not the bad old days of the 1970s and '80s, when the racism of both public and private sectors fostered crisis after crisis and austerity was somehow deemed the only answer -- but to the 1850s of the antebellum north, which was in many ways th...