Oysters of Locmariaquer (P752) - Softcover

Eleanor Clark

3.29

187 ratings by Goodreads

9780226107639: Oysters of Locmariaquer (P752)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226107639 ISBN 13: 9780226107639

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1978

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

Describes how oysters are cultivated off the northwest French coast of Brittany, and examines the history, myths, and legends of the region, in a new edition of the National Book Award-winning travelogue, updated with a new essay by Mark Kurlansky. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Eleanor Clark (1913–1996) was also the author of two other works of nonfiction, Rome and a Villa and Eyes, Etc., and the novels The Bitter Box, Baldur's Gate, and Camping Out. She was married to Robert Penn Warren.

Review:

The Oysters of Locmariaquer is all of a piece, the work of a wanderer, of an insatiably curious mind on the loose.-- -- The New York Times Book Review

What an elegant book this is, starting with that most elegant of creatures, the Belon oyster....[Clark's] fantastic blending of science and art, history and journalism, brings the appetite back for life and literature both. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review, Susan Salter Reynolds, 27 December 1998

[Eleanor Clark] has made a book in which the novelist's gift of identification has merged with the essayist's delight in selection of detail, the traveller's roots and relationships. -- The New Republic

[The Oysters of Locmariaquer] belongs to a class of one....It calls to mind a quickly braided mulitcolored rope in which strands enmesh and enfold and enhance one another in perpetual reappearance. Much wit and patience and all the sense we have went into making this book. -- New York Review of Books

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.