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By Jeffrey Ford

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“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 no...

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Stories can change your life. Maybe they won’t, and maybe they shouldn’t (that is, after all, a lot to put on any story). But the right story, at the right time, certainly can. Saved from death at the hands of the great white whale at the end of Moby-Dick, Captain Ahab washes up on the shores of the United […]

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