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Author:
Naslund, Sena Jeter.
Title:
Ahab's wife, or, The star-gazer : a novel / by Sena Jeter Naslund ; illustrations by Christopher Wormell.
Edition:
1st Perennial ed.
Publisher:
HarperCollins,
Copyright Date:
c2000
Description:
xix, 668 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Other Authors:
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick.
Notes:
A novel inspired by Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
Contents:
Mild blue day -- Dirge -- Crossing -- Reverie -- Window -- Steamboat -- Paddlewheel -- Island -- Difficult farewell -- Giant -- Winter, summers -- New Bedford -- Boston -- Petrel -- Storm at night -- Brightness of brightness -- Rose -- Our lady of the rocks -- Return of the Petrel, with three letters -- Comb -- Fourth letter -- Camel -- Sea-Fancy inn -- Sussex -- Cabin boy -- Companion -- Captain Coffins' story-secondhand -- Whaleboat by moonlight -- Captain Morrell's story-thirdhand -- Captain Ahab's story-my first acquaintance with him -- Aloft -- "Pardon me" -- Reunion -- Revelation -- Sea storms -- Frost wind -- Collision -- Course -- Distance of the stars -- Sentence -- What do you fetch for your mouth? -- Beginning of the debate -- Father and son -- Human animal -- Alba Albatross -- Ganglion -- Postscript on the above -- Soaring -- Portrait of a virgin listening -- Icarus -- Test -- Funeral -- Contest -- I am married -- Aboard the Pequod -- Hurricane house -- Ahab's jottings -- Kit's ruminations -- Starbuck introduces himself -- Ahab overheard -- Letter to the lighthouse -- Poor Kit's a-cold -- Arctic -- Ahab in his cabin -- Aloft, the Pequod -- Starbuck: ship's log -- Starbuck communes with Mary, his wife -- In the steward's pantry -- Ahab's comfort -- Nantucket-the faraway isle -- Ahab prepares for the next voyage -- Breakfast -- Shame -- B'twixt -- Enter: the gaoler and the judge -- On the moor -- Slow spring -- Churches -- Baptismal -- Fire -- Ahab addresses the flames -- Ahab's wife -- Sky full of angels -- Resurrection -- Purpose of art -- Office of a friend -- Childhood as an island -- World of Rebekkah Swain -- Kentucky seasons -- Winter tale -- Burden -- Lantern -- Shakespeare and company -- Guide -- Getting started -- Forest murmurs -- In the Cupola -- To summer -- Wife -- Mitchells -- Vestal street -- Ahab -- From Cupola to Wharf -- Idyll -- Comet -- Frannie's letter from an inland lighthouse -- Angry letter from Aunt Agatha -- Letter to an inland lighthouse -- Minister in the woods -- History of snow and restlessness -- Altar rock -- Mothering -- Chowder swirls -- Birthing room -- Leg -- Christmas Eve -- Last glimpse of the Pequod: Christmas Day -- Jeroboam returns -- First part of Ahab's third voyage after his marriage -- Moon watch -- Letter from Susan -- Samuel Enderby of London puts in for repairs at Nantucket -- Distress of justice -- To Siasconset -- Hedge -- Journey toward the starry sky, in present tense -- "Sconset morning -- More of morning: Tashtego's feather makes the letter S -- Neighbor beyond the hedge -- roar of guilt -- Return of the Delight -- Perseid -- Woolsack -- Letter from Margaret Fuller, from England -- Letter from David Poland, Virginia -- Letter to beloved kin -- Letter from Margaret Fuller, from Italy -- Judge's invitation -- Mrs. Maynard's note -- Preparations -- Frannie -- Liberty and the dolphins -- Suitable marriage -- What has proved to be a last visit -- Song -- Squeeze of the hand -- Una preaches to the waves -- Great fire: June 1846 -- Reflections on a wreck -- During the pleasure party -- Celestial -- New friend -- Sermon overheard -- Plans -- Recitation by beach fire -- Letter from Susan, forwarded -- Roof walk.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)45112212
Locations:
TOPB062 -- Blairstown Public Library (Blairstown) — F NAS
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
OAAX516 -- Maharishi University of Management Library (Fairfield)
ZYPE837 -- Harlan Community Library (Harlan)
OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)
OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)
ZVPB675 -- Whiting Public Library (Whiting)

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