Shucked: Life on a New England Oyster Farm
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"Bill Buford's "Heat "meets Phoebe Damrosch's" Service Included "in this unique blend of personal narrative, food miscellany, and history"""""In March of 2009, Erin Byers Murray ditched her pampered city girl lifestyle and convinced the rowdy and mostly male crew at Island Creek Oysters in Duxbury, Massachusetts, to let a completely unprepared, aquaculture-illiterate food and lifestyle writer work for them for 12 months to learn the business of oysters...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0312681917
ISBN13:9780312681913
Release Date:October 2011
Publisher:St. Martin's Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"
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Genre-crossing, interesting nonfiction!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 8 years ago
It's hard to put a genre on this: it's a memoir, but also gives real facts and insight into this lifestyle, starting from the perspective of a newcomer who becomes (relatively speaking) an expert. The writing is excellent and brings to mind Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.
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