The Moby-Dick Blues

By: Michael Strelow

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 192 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781785357022
Publisher:: Roundfire Books
Date of Addition:: 11/05/25
Copyrighted By:: Michael Strelow
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers, Science Fiction and Fantasy
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.