| The Moby-Dick Blues Contributor(s): Strelow, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1785357018 ISBN-13: 9781785357015 Publisher: Roundfire Books OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Alternative History - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical |
| Dewey: 813.6 |
| LCCN: 2017934608 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.65 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Arvin Kraft loves his complicated family, but they talk about him: how slow he is, how they need to share the burden of caring for him, how tired they all are. He hides in the walls of the family's old house in Boston and listens to their laments. And he also discovers there a lead box of old papers. Slowly he reads them and finds they are the original manuscript of Melville's Moby-Dick, long thought to have been lost in an 1850s fire at his publisher. The manuscript is valuable enough to save the family's failing construction business if marketed properly. But Arvin wants more and Professor Thorne is the Melville expert who can help. Arvin and the professor take turns telling this tale with its lyric resonances of Moby-Dick, the specter of the curse of Ahab and strange deaths, and the scramble of greed as the manuscript becomes more valuable by the hour. |
Contributor Bio(s): Strelow, Michael: - Michael Strelow has a Ph.D in Literature, and has published poetry, short stories, and non-fiction essays in literary and commercial magazines. He regularly runs creative writing workshops in universities and writing groups, and his 2005 novel The Greening of Ben Brown was a finalist for the Ken Kesey Novel Award. Michael lives in Salem, Oregon, USA. |