Weeping with an Ancient God

by Ted Morrissey

Overview

Weeping with an Ancient God is a novella set in the Marquesas Islands in the summer of 1842. The protagonist, Melvill, has jumped ship from the whaler Acushnet into a wild, savage and exotically beautiful land. Melvill contemplates his dangerous present, his sad past, and his wholly uncertain future on an island teeming with cannibals. The novella is based on author Herman Melville's real-life adventures as a young seaman.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150616370
Publisher:	Twelve Winters Press
Publication date:	08/08/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	162
File size:	213 KB

About the Author

Ted Morrissey is the author of the novels An Untimely Frost and Men of Winter, the novelette Figures in Blue, and stories and essays in more than thirty journals, among them Glimmer Train, PANK, Writers Ask and the North American Review. A Ph.D. in English studies, he has also published The Beowulf Poet and His Real Monsters, winner of the D. Simon Evans Prize for distinguished scholarship. He lives with his wife Melissa near Springfield, Illinois. Together they have five adult children and a rescued silky terrier named Einstein. Visit at tedmorrissey.com.

Editorial Reviews

In Weeping with an Ancient God, Ted Morrissey offers readers an intriguing glimpse into the very human experiences of one of literature's immortals, Herman Melville. Morrissey's Melvill is reckless with fear, embarrassed in lust. Even readers who shy away from Melville's great works will find it easy to relate to Morrissey's Melvill, compelling, flawed, at heart simply a man.

author of Lodestar - Lisa Higgs

Ted Morrissey sifts through memory in search of meaning, and often finds it--and life--slip-sliding away into melancholy. The lush prose of the novella make this book a real keeper.

author of A Majority of One - Robert Lamb

In a prose reminiscent of Coleridge and Narayan, Morrissey's Weeping with an Ancient God blends history and narrative in a thrilling journey through a savage world that dares to question the nature of "civilized" society.

author of The Price of Loyalty - Adam Kershaw