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Product Identifiers
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-100801819598
ISBN-139780801819599
eBay Product ID (ePID)988242
Product Key Features
Book TitleLord's Oysters
Number of Pages344 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1957
TopicGeneral, Historical
FeaturesReprint
GenreFiction
AuthorGilbert Byron
Book SeriesMaryland Paperback Bookshelf Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight13.8 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN57-006442
Reviews""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."", 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., "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."-- Saturday Review, 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., "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."-- New York Times Book Review
TitleLeadingThe
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal813/.5/4
Table Of ContentPrologue 1. Rose Mack and Miss Emma 2. A Breath of Fresh Air 3. Rags! Rags! Rags! 4. Come Dogwood Time 5. Frogs and Turtles and Puppy Dog Tails 6. Puss! Puss! Puss! 7. Mr. Greenley's Ghost 8. On the Lower Deck 9. The Hunter Is a Sissy 10. Birds of a Feather 11. To the Victor 12. the Birth of Hypochondria 13. Izzy Comes to Town 14. Vision of Miss Sally 15. Noah and Jonah 16. Catching the Devil 17. Mr. Lewy and the Age of Speed 18. Grandpappy's Foggy Day 19. Rip 20. The Christian Thing to Do 21. My Lewy Had Wings 22. The Prodigal Son 23. Cupid and the Little City Girl 24. Long Pants or a Mustache 25. Wig 26. The Passing of the River Rats 27. Batty: Wildnerness Scout 28. The Lord's Oysters
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisMemories of the author's youth are incorporated in a novel about the boyhood escapades of Noah Marlin, the son of a Chesapeake Bay waterman.