num_pages: 688
description: "Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last, " says Una Spenser, the eponymous narrator, in the first sentence of this deliciously old-fashioned bildungsroman, adventure story and romance. Classics; Fiction; Historical; Literary
language: English
title: Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer
titlecomplete: Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer
characters: Kit Sparrow, Giles Bonebright, Captain Ahab, Una Spenser, Frederick Douglass
genres: Book Club, Historical, Historical Fiction, Unfinished, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Literature, Adult, Fiction
ratings_count: 44331
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: William Morrow and Company