{"product_id":"9781529929997-call-me-ishmaelle","title":"Call Me Ishmaelle","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A smart gender-flipped version of \u003ci\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/i\u003e’ \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A clever and original skewering of a classic’ \u003ci\u003ei News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A brilliantly written reordering of \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick’ \u003c\/i\u003ePhilip Hoare\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCall Me Ishmaelle\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines the epic battle between man and nature in Herman Melville’s \u003ci\u003eMoby Dick \u003c\/i\u003efrom a female perspective – perfect for fans Madeline Miller, Percival Everett and Barbara Kingsolver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1843, in a small village on the stormy Kent coast, Ishmaelle is born. She grows up swimming with dolphins and eventually – desperate for a life at sea – she disguises herself as a cabin boy and travels to New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the American Civil War breaks out, Ishmaelle boards a whaling ship led by the obsessive Captain Seneca, a Black free man of heroic stature who is haunted by a tragic past. Here, she finds protectors amidst the bloody male violence of whaling and discovers a mysterious bond between herself and the mythical white whale Moby Dick…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘One of the most valuable writers in the world’ Deborah Levy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Guo has gender-flipped this intimidating text with bravura and style… \u003ci\u003eCall Me Ishmaelle \u003c\/i\u003etakes us on a courageous journey: it’s no aping of a classic, rather a vision of a young woman sailing out to discover not a whale but her own self. And in that, it happily succeeds’ \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘An astonishingly ambitious undertaking . you’re in the hands of a genuine storyteller’ \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55893347762550,"sku":"9781529929997","price":9.43,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41048765_63e24341-6a96-4f0c-800f-a1bcf61520a0.jpg?v=1777035556","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529929997-call-me-ishmaelle","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}