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Title: Ahab's Wife
Review: I am not sure why I so differ from so many of your other reviewers! I would not even have given it one star, had that been an option. It is tedious, WAY too long, and in my judgment an insult to Melville's giant book and characters. To me, it appeared to be the author's opportunity to celebrate her own brilliance: so much irrelevant information; so little character development; in fact, so little character. Unfortunately, Naslund chose to abandon the few interesting characters she did manage to develop and left their lives or deaths to the reader to resolve. There are so many wonderful books written about the period in which Una lived, I feel cheated for having stuggled through this trite and far too long novel.
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