Word: sena
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...AHAB'S WIFE by Sena Jeter Naslund. While Melville's men were hasing whales in Moby Dick, what were the women up to? This novel's spirited heroine tells all and debunks the notion that 19th century American women were as "sweet and resigned" as Melville assumed...
That tour de force was followed by Sena Naslund's Ahab's Wife, in which young Una Spencer goes to sea disguised as a boy and eventually encounters Melville's legendary whaling captain. Marriage and a child follow before Ahab goes off to chase Moby Dick and Una becomes a freethinker, abolitionist and, in time, Ishmael's significant other...
...step aboard the vaulting epic Ahab's Wife (Morrow; 668 pages; $28), by Sena Jeter Naslund, and almost instantly you are in New England in 1840, a charged, visionary realm atremble with religious longings and debate. Privets are shaped like sperm whales. Inns are kept by witches. Women ask each other in passing, "What do you think of the afterlife?" Your guide through this God-racked wilderness is a classically captivating heroine, Una Spenser, drawn equally to storms and speculations...
...will take two weeks to repair the damage caused by activists of the Shiv Sena party who want to stop any rapprochement with Pakistan. ?But the government will make sure the game goes ahead,? says McGirk, ?because Prime Minister Vajpayee has given in too many times to extremists.? Of course, the Shiv Sena action could be seen as a bid to sway the match -- a damaged pitch would more likely favor India?s spin bowlers than it would Pakistan?s pace...
Joseph A. Sena...