{"product_id":"9781529929997","title":"Call Me Ishmaelle - Xiaolu Guo","description":"\u003cp\u003e`A smart gender-flipped version of Moby Dick' Daily Telegraph`A clever and original skewering of a classic' i News`A brilliantly written reordering of Moby-Dick' Philip HoareCall Me Ishmaelle reimagines the epic battle between man and nature in Herman Melville's Moby Dick from a female perspective - perfect for fans Madeline Miller, Percival Everett and Barbara KingsolverIn 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. As 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.`One of the most valuable writers in the world' Deborah Levy`Guo has gender-flipped this intimidating text with bravura and style. Call Me Ishmaelle takes 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' Daily Telegraph`An astonishingly ambitious undertaking . . . you're in the hands of a genuine storyteller' New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xiaolu Guo","offers":[{"title":"448 pages \/ 19\/03\/2026 \/ Adventure","offer_id":56970071277943,"sku":"9781529929997","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781529929997_39494a13-4e61-4c35-b3e5-ccabeb7c0f43.jpg?v=1780995564","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781529929997","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}