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Title: The Horror! The Horror!
Review: The grostesque offspring of looney feminism and a trashy romance novel. The novel begins with the heroine, Una, lying in bliss with Ahab in the grass. Sorry- has anyone who has read Moby Dick really imagined him as the sort of chap to do such a thing? The author is entitled to taking her own spin on things, however...why must the novel be so politicized? Naslund grafts attacks on every modern social bugbear into the novel. Racism? Una fights racism and has a tryst with great black leader, Frederick Douglas. Sexism? She passes herself off as a male sailor and does just as good as the guy, thank you very much. Traditional gender roles? Heck no- Una runs away and takes up all sorts of masculine activities!Please- tell me a story, don't beat me over the head with nearly 700 pages of overheated, preachy prose.
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