Finalist - Los Angeles Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award  ​

Winner - M.M. Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction

Winner - MassBook Reader's Choice Award​​​​

Finalist - Lascaux Prize for Literature  ​

Named one of the 10 best novels of 2016 by Powell's, Bustle, Refinery29, and The Coil.

"Beauregard has captured the true hide and grit of that God- and nature-haunted 19th-century mind in all its rough, baroque, oddly tender poetry.” —The Washington Post​

“Mark Beauregard’s exhilarating, beautifully realized novel The Whale provides a detailed, passionate, and thoughtful evocation of Hawthorne and Melville's love for one another, including a sexual dimension…”  —Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies ​

“Vivid and beautifully written, smart, and achingly sensual, this novel is at once a passionate love story and a gripping portrait of an artist wrestling with himself on the cusp of his greatest achievement.” —Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles​

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