· The Oysters of Locmariaquer by Clark, Eleanor. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, , · Read "The Oysters of Locmariaquer" by Eleanor Clark available from Rakuten Kobo. Winner of the National Book Award “[Clark’s] fantastic blending of science and art, history and journalism, brings the a Brand: Ecco. The Oysters of Locmariaquer by CLARK, Eleanor: very good (+) hardcover () | Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB.
Eleanor Clark (July 6, Febru) was born in Los Angeles and attended Vassar College in the s. She was the author of the National Book Award winner The Oysters of Locmariaquer, Rome and a Villa, Eyes, Etc., and the novels The Bitter Box, Baldur's Gate, and Camping Out. The oysters of what? www.doorway.ruiaquer. A little village at the maw of the Gulf of the Morbihan on the coast of Brittany. A place where ""to think of life is to think of oysters almost as if you could hear all those millions of them breathing when the tide is out."" ""Oyster dear to the gourmet,"" wrote Seneca, "" all stomachs bless you!"" (which sounds rather like Auden in his later mood). The Oysters of Locmariaquer, by Eleanor Clark. Late in Eleanor Clark's extraordinary book, she tells us the oyster needs the same landscape that a plein air painter does: a certain air, light, chemistry. "The explanation," she writes, "might be quite simple, not esoteric at all—in some common equation of factors and atmospheres.".
A book reminiscent of those of M.F.K. Fisher and John McPhee: allowing a small object to serve as the basis for an insightful and expansive essay, in this case on oysters. Add to Cart. Buy Now. Add to Wishlist. Item Price. $ The Oysters of Locmariaquer. by Eleanor Clark. Seller. Eleanor Clark, who was the wife of Robert Penn Warren, won the National Book Award for The Oysters of Locmariaquer in She intersperses sections on natural history, on the geography and economics of the oyster fishery—really hatchery—with portraits of locals. Eleanor Clark (July 6, –Febru) was born in Los Angeles and attended Vassar College in the s. She was the author of the National Book Award winner The Oysters of Locmariaquer, Rome and a Villa, Eyes, Etc., and the novels The Bitter Box, Baldur's Gate, and Camping Out. She was married to Robert Penn Warren.
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