Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Pages
668
Description
The adventures of Una Spenser who went to sea disguised as a cabin boy. Shipwrecked, she marries one of the survivors, then falls in love with Captain Ahab, a man obsessed with a white whale. She becomes involved in fighting slavery and in women's rights.
Subjects
Original publication date
1999-09-22
Media reviews
Naslund, the author of four previous books of fiction, is most successful here sentence to sentence, where her gift for pleasure shines. Her Una is a deep and wayward creature, undaunted by convention, whose descriptions are dense with a languid and sensual interest in the world. Unlike Ahab, Una
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Awards
Women's Prize for Fiction (Longlist — 2001)
Dublin Literary Award (Longlist — 2001)
Indies Choice Book Award (Honor Book — Adult — 2000)
Alabama Author Award (Fiction — 2001)
Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books (Fiction — 1999)