Naslund, Sena Jeter.

Ahab's wife, or, The star-gazer : a novel / Ahab's wife Star-gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund ; illustrations by Christopher Wormell. - 1st ed. - New York : William Morrow, c1999. - xix, 668 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

A novel inspired by Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

0688171877

99-022135


Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Ship captains' spouses--Fiction.
Whalers' spouses--Fiction.
Women--Massachusetts--Fiction.


Nantucket Island (Mass.)--Fiction.


Historical fiction.

PS3564.A827 / A76 1999

813/.54