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Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund

Ahab's Wife

Or, The Star-Gazer: A Novel

by Sena Jeter Naslund

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  • Oct 1999, 688 pages
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hisroric feelings
From beginning to end, this novel is captivating..I sensed, as I read, a historical feeling, am I reading a novel or history?..What a story is told here!
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