Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund

' 'Ahab's Wife' brings Sena Jeter Naslund epic success'. 'Louisvillean named state's poet laureate'. James Court or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman (2013)

Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette (2006).

The Disobedience of Water: Stories and Novellas (1999).

Ice Skating at the North Pole: Stories (1989).

James Court, in the former home of Kentucky poet Madison Cawein. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky, at St. That world is a looking-glass version of Melville's fictional seafaring one, ruled by compassion as the other is by obsession, with a heroine who is as much a believer in social justice as the famous hero is in vengeance.' 'Naslund has taken less than a paragraph's worth of references to the captain's young wife from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and fashioned from this slender rib not only a woman but an entire world. 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 masterful storyteller and in the company of a fascinating woman hero.

Thematically, much of Naslund's work explores women who are 'marginalized or misunderstood.' In the bestselling Ahab's Wife, for instance, Stacey D'Erasmo suggests She completed her Master of Arts and PhD at the Iowa Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa. In 1964 she earned a bachelor's degree from Birmingham-Southern College. Sena Kathryn Jeter was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1942 to Marvin Luther Jeter, a physician, who died when she was 15, and Flora Lee (Sims) Jeter, a music teacher.

In 2005, Governor Ernie Fletcher named Naslund Poet Laureate of Kentucky. She is the Writer in Residence at University of Louisville and the Program Director for the MFA in Writing at Spalding University in the same city. Her 1999 novel, Ahab's Wife, and her 2003 novel, Four Spirits, were each named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. /rebates/2f97806881718722fAhabs-Wife-Star-Gazer-Novel-Naslund-06881718772fplp&. She has published seven novels and two collections of short fiction. Sena Jeter Naslund (born June 28, 1942) is an American writer.

Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund