Size: 6x1x9;

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Book. Signed by Author(s) Signed by Author(s) 0060198362 First Print. First

Book. Signed by Author(s) Signed by Author(s) 0060198362 First Print. First edition. Signed in person by the author on the FULL title page, NOT inscribed, clipped or otherwise marked.

Size: 6x1x9; Signed by author on title page. Signature only. First edition

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New York. 2002. Ecco Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket.

New York. 2002. Ecco Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0060198362. 288 pages. hardcover. keywords: American Literature. DESCRIPTION-Set on the Louisiana coast in 1957. OYSTER recounts the engrossing tale of a deadly rivalry between two families. To avoid ruin after years of declining oyster crops, Felix and Mathilde Petitjean offer their young daughter, Therese, in marriage to 52-year-old Horse Bruneau, who holds the papers on their boat and house. Bruneau has spent his life as Felix's rival for both the Petitjean's century-old oyster beds and, as we learn, Mathilde. But as Therese explains to Horse one night as they float in a pirogue alone in the marsh. ‘I don't get bought for the price of no damn boat. ' These characters inhabit a harsh environment in which people save themselves, if they are to be saved at all. The rapid sequence of events of the opening of the novel is typical of the sudden violence that is never more than an insult away in the muddy wastes of the marsh. People work there without a margin, their boats mortgaged to the next harvest of shrimp or oyster, their work one of the most dangerous of daily occupations, their emotions scraped raw by the grievances they cultivate and pass down to their children as the only lasting inheritance of a life of poverty. The spiraling violence of OYSTER and the seething passions behind it drive an unpredictable tale of murder and revenge in which two women and the men who desire them play out a drama as elemental and inexorable as a Greek tragedy. John Biguenet's fiction has appeared in such publications as Esquire, Granta, Playboy, Story, amd Zoetrope. The winner of an O. Henry Award for short fiction, he lives in New Orleans. Ecco published his debut collection of stories, THE TORTURER'S APPRENTICE. in 2001. OYSTER is his first novel. inventory #31953.