It’s a moment when the captain has a final chance to pull back from the brink.
My husband, an English professor, loves the novel for what he’s dubbed the “Starbuck moment”, when the first mate pleads with Ahab to give up his quest before the whole crew suffers. As he stalks the whale that took his leg, his burning need for vengeance pushes aside all other considerations. These 10 books examine obsession through different lenses, but all of them capture some of the addictive pull that’s inspired me as a writer and reader.Ĭaptain Ahab embodies obsession as completely as any character ever will. The story centres on an organisation where clients reconnect with those they’ve lost, which struck me as the ideal setup for obsessive and forbidden love.
Fixation was at the heart of my debut novel, The Possessions, from its very beginning, a constant element that stayed steady even as I worked and reworked everything else.
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