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The Lord's Oysters

Gilbert Byron

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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.

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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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Available
Trim Size
5.25
x
8.125
Pages
344
ISBN
9780801819599
Table of Contents

Prologue
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

Prologue
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

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Gilbert Byron

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.