Publisher's Synopsis
"'Call me Ishmael' is one of the most famous opening lines in all of literature. Intriguing, haunting, suggestive, ambiguous the narrator does not say that his name is Ishmael. He summons the reader to call him by that name. And in so doing, the narrator invites the reader not merely into a story but an epic, a tale that encompasses life, death, the universe, God, angels, demons, and man caught in the eye of that cosmic hurricane. If you consent to call him Ishmael, you consent to this voyage"--.
