description: Una Spenser is sent away as a child to live in a lighthouse, but runs away to sea disguised as a cabin boy, going on to encounter disasters, murder, romance and marriage to Captain Ahab, whom the reader sees through Una's eyes before the white whale takes his leg and sends him mad.
language: English
title: Ahab's Wife : Or the Star Gazer
titlecomplete: Ahab's Wife : Or the Star Gazer
characters: Giles Bonebright, Kit Sparrow, Frederick Douglass, Una Spenser, Captain Ahab
genres: Fiction, Historical, Book Club, Literature, Adult, Novels, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Unfinished
ratings_count: 44332
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Book Sense Book of the Year Award
category: Adult, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Alabama Author Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Gardners Books