Call Me Ahab: A Short Story Collection

by Anne Finger

Book Overview

Imagine a Hollywood encounter between Helen Keller and Frida Kahlo, "two female icons of disability." Or the story of "Moby Dick, or, The Leg," told from Ahab's perspective. What if Vincent Van Gogh resided in a twentieth-century New York hotel, surviving on food stamps and direct communications with God? Or if the dwarf pictured in a seventeenth-century painting by Velazquez should tell her story? And, finally, imagine the encounter between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803225334
• ISBN13: 9780803225336
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Bison
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.4"