Oyster

by JohnBiguenet (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.25

  OYSTER is a story of greed, passion and fierce rivalry which traces the deadly feud of two families on the coast of Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana in 1957. Following an old custom, Therese, the eighteen-year-old daughter of Felix and Mathilde Petitjean, has been promised in marriage to the fifty-two year old head of their rival family. But she has other plans for the old fool, and her drastic actions spark the old hatred into a flame like never before...This is an environment in which people save themselves if they are to be saved at all.

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.25

  It's the mid-1950s and the Petitjeans and the Bruneaus have farmed oysters in Louisiana for hundreds of years. Bitter rivals, the two families struggle to survive, their boats mortgaged to the next harvest, their emotions soured by the grievances they pass down to their children. Now the oyster beds are threatened - and with them both families' livelihoods. The solution is a marriage between the headstrong young Therese Petitjean and Horse, the brutal patriarch of the Bruneau clan. But then a body is trawled in with the shrimp, and so begins a cycle of revenge that can only end one way... Oyster is a story of greed, passion and fierce rivalry. This is an environment in which people save themselves if they are to be saved at all. 'Biguenet uses a prose style redolent with the sense of mystery emanating from the land and from the murky bayous that litter it. The sense of place is remarkable in this outstanding first novel, and the people who inhabit it are evoked in all their primitive splendour. Recommended' - Irish Times .