Oyster
Subtitle: a novel
By: John Biguenet.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Louisiana -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Set on the Louisiana coast in 1957, Oyster recounts the tale of a deadly rivalry between two families. To avoid ruin after declining years of 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.""--BOOK JACKET.