I'm not going to write anything about the plot- it would spoil it. Brandt Legg's brilliant sci-fi technothriller will push your buttons. This was a wonderful read. Lost meets DaVinci Code in the newest from Matthew Mather, worldwide bestseller, translations in 24 languages, film development by 20th Century Fox. Those from the literary school of kill-the-one-you-love will thrill to Ahab's Wife. The vocabulary is a challenge, and I have a degree in English. It serves to reinforce the sense that Una herself is hauling up her own seafaring tale. Despite the heat of my labor, I could feel my nose turning to ice, long and sharp as a church steeple all glazed with frost. Please try your request again later. R.A.P. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 October 2018, Great book about Captain Ahab's wife.. definitely worth reading a woman's voice from the sea. (Oct.), Nothing in Naslund's previous fiction (The Disobedience of Water, p. 571, etc.) Additional gift options are available when buying one eBook at a time. At times I was intrigued and interested....at times totally bored. Different, intellectual, and has a lasting, calming impact. Yesterday, when I tilted my face to the sky, I imaged not the full figure but only his cloudy head, a portrait, glancing back at me over his shoulder. There, softness of two mattresses comforted me from beneath and warmth of myriad quilts, a cacophony of colors, warmed me from above, but still I worked my feet and legs and twisted my back. But these are small faults in a splendid novel that amply fulfills its ambitious purpose offering a sweeping, yet intimate picture of a remarkable woman who both typifies and transcends her times. Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 3 octobre 2018, Great book about Captain Ahab's wife.. definitely worth reading a woman's voice from the sea. From the opening line--Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last--you will know that you are in the hands of a master storyteller and in the company of a fascinating woman hero. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 22, 2018. The home where first I found my body, my feet not so much being pulled into this sandy beach as seeking downward, toes better than roots; then, my mind, built not to chart this blue swell of heaving ocean, but the night sky, where the stars themselves, I do believe, heave and float and spin in fiery passions of their own; Nantucket!--home, finally, of my soul, found on a platform eight-by-eight, the wooden widow's walk perched like a pulpit atop my house. These promotions will be applied to this item: Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. A wonderful read. Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? Doesn't go anywhere and at 650 pages, it is at least 300 pages too long. Then Una returns to Kentucky, thence back east (Nantucket), where her restless intellect involves her with New England's ruling intellectual elite (including Transcendentalist icon Margaret Fuller) and the burgeoning abolitionist movement. Had to really force myself to finish this chicklit masquerading as high fiction. My desperate, laughing prayer from within that quilted hump below its parsnip was only that I should be delivered and nothing at all for the welfare of the rest of the world. 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. Writing a book, I thought, which men often do, but women only rarely, has the posture of sewing. Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2015. Now! In my travail, I scarcely noticed her leaving. Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. The protagonist is a thoughtful, intellectual nature lover who is atheist and her father, a devout man, throws her out of the house. A Fabulous Read. That mark started like lightning at Ahab's temple and ran not all the way to his heel (as some thought) but ended at Ahab's heart. Una's search for identity brings her friendship with such real life figures as writer Margaret Fuller and astronomer Maria Mitchell, and with such colorful fictional characters as an escaped slave and a dwarf bounty hunter. Some scenes were wonderful, some disgusting. The book that inspired the movie. Not perfect - but wonderful, all the same, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 21, 2013. She makes good choices, makes poor choices. Then, why, when I look into the mild, day sky, do the clouds scramble, like letters in the alphabet, and spell not Nantucket, but that first home, Kentucky? One hand leads, and the other hand helps. Books. Some things believable, some not so much.

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