Lucchesi and The WhaleLucchesi 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 lifebecause grief alone inspires him to writeand searching for secret meaning in Herman Melvilles Moby Dick. Himself a writer of stories full of violence in a poetic