"In 1849, when Melville returned to America after a short stay in England, he had a strange item in his baggage. It was an embalmed head...but it was his own."
—Opening two lines of Melville: A Novel by Jean Giono
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I am so looking forward to reading this short novel about Herman Melville. I've only read these two opening lines and I am hooked.
Apparently, it started life as a preface to the first French translation of Moby-Dick, but then swam off into what is now this short novel.
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