Dayswork

by Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel

In the endless days of the pandemic, a woman spends her time sorting fact from fiction in the life and work of Herman Melville. As she delves into Melville's impulsive purchase of a Massachusetts farmhouse, his fevered revision of Moby-Dick there, his intense friendship with neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne, and his troubled and troubling marriage to Elizabeth Shaw, she becomes increasingly obsessed by what his devotion to his art reveals about cost,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324086491
• ISBN13: 9781324086499
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 240 Pages