Sena Jeter Naslund
Autor von Ahab's Wife or, The Star-Gazer
Über den Autor
Sena Jeter Naslund was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1942. She received a Bachelor's degree from Birmingham Southern College, where she received the B.B. Comer Medal in English, and a Master's degree and a doctorate from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has taught at the University of mehr anzeigen Louisville, the University of Montana, Indiana University (Bloomington), Vermont College, and the University of Montevallo. She has written several books including The Disobedience of Water, Ahab's Wife, Four Spirits, Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette, and Adam and Eve. She has won numerous awards including the Harper Lee Award, the Hall-Waters Southern Prize, the Southeastern Library Association Award, and the Alabama Library Association Award. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Werke von Sena Jeter Naslund
High Horse: Contemporary Writing by the MFA Faculty of Spalding University (2005) — Herausgeber — 2 Exemplare
Friendship and Fiction 1 Exemplar
The Lousiville Review, Number 62, Fall 2007 1 Exemplar
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Death Echo | Sherlock in Love | The Lies That Bind — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Naslund, Sena Jeter
- Geburtstag
- 1942-06-28
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
- Wohnorte
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Louisville, Kentucky, USA - Ausbildung
- Birmingham-Southern College
University of Iowa (Iowa Writers' Workshop, MA, PhD|creative writing) - Berufe
- writer
poet
editor
professor - Beziehungen
- Jeter, Marvin D. (brother)
Jeter, John Sims (brother) - Organisationen
- University of Louisville (Distinguished Teaching Professor)
Spalding University brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing (program director)
The Louisville Review (editor, founder)
Fleur-de-Lis Press (founder, 1976) - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Kentucky Poet Laureate
Writer in Residence (University of Louisville)
Harper Lee Award
Southeastern Library Association Fiction Award - Agent
- Joy Harris (Joy Harris Literary Agency)
- Kurzbiographie
- From HarperCollins: Sena Jeter Naslund is the daughter of a physician father and a musician mother. She grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, with her two older brothers Marvin D. Jeter, an archaeologist and author and John Sims Jeter, a retired engineer and novelist. The Jeter family also lived briefly in Loredo, West Virginia, and Jackson, Louisiana. Naslund attended public schools in Birmingham and graduated from Birmingham Southern College where she received the B.B. Comer Medal in English. She earned a master's degree and a doctorate from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She served as Kentucky Poet Laureate during 2005–2006, and is currently Writer in Residence and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Louisville.
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Ahab's Wife in Awful Lit. (August 2015)
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slavery,rape, homosexual rape, incest and much more. It was clever and well written but did not leave me feeling satisfied
Told mainly from Dr. Watson's point of view after Sherlock's death (his real one, years after the falls). Very touching in some areas. I enjoyed the retelling of part of the detectives life.
Sena Jeter Nauslund (how I would love to know the etymology of that name) has written a book worthy of its inspiration in Ahab’s Wife. Beautifully written, though some of the ponderings by Una (the wife) as she develops her spirituality remind me of the elven songs in Tolkien - long and wavering and tempting to skip.
That said, this is an amazing life description of a girl who lived unafraid. Like Ahab, she thrusts herself in places, builds skills so she can handle life’s twists, strengthens herself against misfortune, opens herself to joy.
Nausland describes life at a lighthouse so beautifully I wanted to pack up my life and move there immediately.. She describes whale hunting in its gruesome detail, draws the heart-rending aspects of mental illness without glancing away.
Now of course I must re- read Moby Dick. I feel that this book provides a humanity to Ahab, and makes me wish for more. And hey bravo for a book that describes the life of women in this time.
Una is a bit tooooo perfect for me, so open and forgiving and tolerant. It seems unlikely at that time. But I was so willing to suspend disbelief and trust in the story and it was beautiful.… (mehr)
That said, this is an amazing life description of a girl who lived unafraid. Like Ahab, she thrusts herself in places, builds skills so she can handle life’s twists, strengthens herself against misfortune, opens herself to joy.
Nausland describes life at a lighthouse so beautifully I wanted to pack up my life and move there immediately.. She describes whale hunting in its gruesome detail, draws the heart-rending aspects of mental illness without glancing away.
Now of course I must re- read Moby Dick. I feel that this book provides a humanity to Ahab, and makes me wish for more. And hey bravo for a book that describes the life of women in this time.
Una is a bit tooooo perfect for me, so open and forgiving and tolerant. It seems unlikely at that time. But I was so willing to suspend disbelief and trust in the story and it was beautiful.… (mehr)
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(Print: October 3, 2006; 978-0060825393; William Morrow; First Edition; 560 pages)
*Audio-CD:2006; 9780061230653; HarperCollins Publishers; duration 11:00:00 (10 discs); Abridged.
(Digital: Yes)
(Film: Not that I know of).
NOTE: (I'd been keeping an Excel list of CD's, Prints, and Cassettes as I read/listened, that I am now adding here, so that I have all of the materials I have already "read" in one place. I did not do a “Summary/Evaluation” of them at the time, so , depending on how well memory serves in each case, evaluations here will probably be especially sketchy.)
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How I picked it: It was a book on CD available at the Newport Beach Friends of the Library book sale. I like history, so purchased it.
What it’s about: The life of Marie Antoinette.
What I thought: I found it educational and liked that it treated her as a character I could have sympathy for.
AUTHOR:
Sena Jeter Naslund::
“"Sena Jeter Naslund (born June 28, 1942) is an American writer. She has published seven novels and two collections of short fiction. Her 1999 novel, Ahab's Wife, and her 2003 novel, Four Spirits, were each named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.[1][2] She is the Writer in Residence at University of Louisville[3] and the Program Director for the MFA in Writing at Spalding University in the same city.[4] In 2005, Governor Ernie Fletcher named Naslund Poet Laureate of Kentucky.[5][6]" __Wikipedia.
NARRATOR:
Burney, Susanna:
“Susanna Burney is an actress, known for The Ward (2010), F.E.A.R. Extraction Point (2006) and F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon (2005).” __IMDb
GENRE:
Fiction; Historical Fiction
LOCATIONS:
France
TIME FRAME
18th Century
SUBJECTS:
Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI, Austria, France
DEDICATION
For my beloved daughter Flora Kathryn Naslund
SAMPLE QUOTATION:
From Chapter One ”Act One” “An Island in the Rhine River, May 1770”
“Like everyone, I am born naked,
I do not refer to my actual birth, mercifully in hidden in the silk folds of memory, but to my birth as a citizen of France-citoyenne, they would say. Having shed all my clothing, I stand in a room on an island in the middle of the Rhine River–naked. My bare feet occupy for this moment a spot considered to be neutral between beloved Austria and France. The sky blue silk of my discarded skirt wreaths my ankles, and I fancy I am standing barefooted in a puddle of pretty water.
My chest is flat as a shield, marked only by two pink rosebuds of nipples. I refuse to be afraid. In the months since I became fourteen, I’ve watched these pleasant rosebuds becoming a bit plump and pinker. Now the fingers and hands of my attendants are stretching toward my neck to remove a smooth circlet of Austrian pearls.
I try to picture the French boy, whom I have never seen, extending large hands toward me, beckoning. What is he doing this very moment, deep in the heart of France? At fifteen, a year older than myself, he must be tall and strong. There must be other words than tall and strong to think of-to describe him, to help me imagine and embody his reality.”
RATING:
4 stars.
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