Ebook {Epub PDF} Ahabs Wife or The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund

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 bltadwin.ru by: 9. 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 (HarperCollins, ). She is currently Distinguished Teaching Professor and Writer in Residence at the University of Louisville and program director of the Spalding University brief-residency Master in Fine Arts in Writing/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 a religion-mad father.4/5.

Sena Jeter Naslund. This Study Guide consists of approximately 31 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Ahab's Wife, or, the Star-gazer. Print Word PDF. This section contains words. (approx. 2 pages at words per page). 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. Years later, Naslund sets no limits for herself as a writing teacher and author of five books. The most recent evidence of this is her latest novel, "Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer" (William.

Inspired by a brief passage in Melville's Moby-Dick, where Captain Ahab speaks passionately of his young wife on Nantucket, Una Spenser's moving tale "is very much Naslund's own and can be enjoyed independently of its source.". 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. 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 a religion-mad father.