โ Scribed by Jeffrey Ford
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
"Jeffrey Ford is one of the few writers who uses wonder instead of ink in his pen." - Jonathan Carroll
A bold and intriguing fabulist novel that reimagines two of the most legendary characters in American literature--Captain Ahab and Ishmael of Herman Melville's 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 ocean's depths by a harpoon line, and the greatly exaggerated rumors of his untimely death have caused him grievous harm--after hearing about Ahab's demise, his wife and child left Nantucket for New York, and now Ahab is on a desperate quest to find them.
Ahab's pursuit leads him to The Gorgon's Mirror, the sensationalist tabloid newspaper that employed...
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