Lucchesi and The Whale

by Frank Lentricchia

Book Overview

Lucchesi and The Whale is an unusual work of fiction by noted author and critic Frank Lentricchia. Its central character, Thomas Lucchesi Jr., is a college professor in the American heartland whose obsessions and compulsions include traveling to visit friends in their last moments of life-because grief alone inspires him to write-and searching for secret meaning in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Himself a writer of "stories full of violence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822331713
• ISBN13: 9780822331711
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.8" x 9.1"