Gus Openshaw's Whale-Killing Journal
Moby-Dick for the blog generation.
Cat food cannery worker Gus Openshaw has one goal in life: to kill a whale. Not just any whale, but a big, blubbery whale that ate his wife, child, and arm during a vicious and unprovoked attack.
With a rickety boat and a heavily restrictive whale-hunting license, Gus sets out to exact his revenge. Along the way, Gus keeps an online journal — a blog — to keep the world informed about his misfit crew, his clashes with pirates, his near-fatal incarceration, and his infatuation with a certain island princess.
Complete with author-drawn scrimshaw illustrations, Gus Openshaw’s Whale-Killing Journal is the hilarious documentation of one man’s obsessive pursuit of a giant whale that would make Captain Ahab proud.
- Author
- Keith Thomson
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 275
- Publisher
- MacAdam Cage
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781596921726
- Characters
- Gus Openshaw
- Genres
- fiction
- Release date
- 2006
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