Ahabs Return or, the Last Voyage - Jeffrey Ford
Category: Historical Fiction
Tags: Historical Fiction, Literature
Length: 7h 54m, A bold and intriguing fabulist novel that re-imagines two of the most legendary characters in American literature Captain Ahab and Ishmael of Herman Melvilles Moby-Dick from the critically acclaimed Edgar and World Fantasy award-winning author of The Girl in the Glass and The Shadow Year., At the end of a long journey, Captain Ahab returns to the mainland to confront the true author of the novel Moby-Dick, his former shipmate, Ishmael., For Ahab was not pulled into the oceans depths by a harpoon line, and the greatly exaggerated rumors of his untimely death have caused him grievous harmafter hearing about Ahabs demise, his wife and child left Nantucket for New York, and now Ahab is on a desperate quest to find them., Ahabs pursuit leads him to The Gorgons Mirror, the sensationalist tabloid newspaper that employed Ishmael as a copy editor while he wrote the harrowing story of the ill-fated Pequod., In the penny presss office, Ahab meets George Harrow, who makes a deal
