Oyster - Brossura

Biguenet, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0752842277 ISBN 13: 9780752842271

Casa editrice: Orion, 2003

Riassunto

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

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Recensione:

In places, Oyster reads like Romeo and Juliet crossed with Deliverance, but Biguenet manages to make you care about his cast of redneck killers, and the clever plotting keeps your attention...Oyster glowers with the steamy menace of the swamps (DAILY TELEGRAPH)

Descrizione del libro:

A dark and brooding tale of secret passions, murder and revenge, set in Louisiana, OYSTER is a powerful and beautifully written debut novel from major new talent.

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• Editore: Orion
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0752842277
• ISBN 13: 9780752842271
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288