Sena Jeter Naslund is the New York Times best-selling author of five novels, including Ahab's Wife () and Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette (Har /5. 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 /5(). Sena Jeter Naslund has 14 books on Goodreads with ratings. Sena Jeter Naslund’s most popular book is Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer.
Sena Jeter Naslund is a cofounder and program director of the Spalding University (Louisville) brief-residency MFA in Writing, where she edits The Louisville Review and Fleur-de-Lis Press. A winner of the Harper Lee Award and the Southeastern Library Association Fiction award, she is the author of eight previous works of fiction, including Ahab's Wife, a finalist for the Orange Prize. bltadwin.ru: Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer: A Novel () by Naslund, Sena Jeter and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. In Ahab's Wife, author Sena Jeter Naslund takes a barely-mentioned, never seen character and gives us her whole life. 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.
Ahab's Wife takes place in the early nineteenth century. In what ways is Una's story a product of the times in which she lives? In what ways are her experiences timeless? 2. Early on in Una's life, her mother instructs her, "Accept the world, Una. It is what it is" (p. 29). Does she? 3. In many ways, Ahab's Wife is a spiritual journey. What are. In Ahab's Wife, author Sena Jeter Naslund takes a barely-mentioned, never seen character and gives us her whole life. 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. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby-Dick, Sena Jeter Naslund has created an enthralling and compellingly readable saga, spanning a rich, eventful, and dramatic life. At once a family drama, a romantic adventure, and a portrait of a real and loving marriage, Ahab's Wife gives new perspective on the American experience.
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