A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew
he winds up saying just about everything that needs to be said about the American West
Following the progression of a typical week at camp
making her wonder just which bits of her are really left intact
where she learns about spontaneous generosity
Consider the Oyster A propulsive and uncommonly wiseM. F. K. Fisher, whom John Updike has called our "poet of the appetites," here pays tribute to that most delicate and enigmatic of foods the oyster. As she tells of oysters found in stews, in soups, roasted, baked, fried, prepared la Rockefeller or au naturel and of the pearls sometimes found therein Fisher describes her mother's joy at encountering oyster loaf in a girls' dorm in he 1890's, recalls her own initiation into the "strange cold