Paperback / softback | |
February 1, 1957 | |
9780801819599 | |
English | |
344 | |
8.13 Inches (US) | |
5.25 Inches (US) | |
.8125 Pounds (US) | |
$30.00 USD, £25.00 GBP | |
v2.1 Reference | |
The Lord's Oysters
Memories of the author's youth are incorporated in a novel about the boyhood escapades of Noah Marlin, the son of a Chesapeake Bay waterman.
About the Author
Gilbert Byron grew up on Maryland's Eastern Shore, a waterman's son like his young hero. A schoolteacher for twenty-eight years, he began writing full time in 1957 and was the author of eleven books. His beloved classic, The Lord's Oysters, is also available from Johns Hopkins.
Reviews
"This is literally a wonderful book. The wonder is that of a boy, Noah Marlin, growing up along the Chester River near the Chesapeake Bay. Inevitably there is something of Twain and Tarkington in his pranks, hooky-playing, and fishing. But other qualities distinctly Gilbert Byron's make the novel more than a nostalgic re-creation of an American childhood. This isn't childhood we're reading about, it's life."
"Crabs, perch, terrapin and frogs enter the episodes, but they are the only things fishy about this very happy sequence of a boy's growing."
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February 1, 1957 | |
9780801819599 | |
English | |
344 | |
8.13 Inches (US) | |
5.25 Inches (US) | |
.8125 Pounds (US) | |
$30.00 USD, £25.00 GBP | |
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