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The Lord's Oysters was nationally acclaimed when first published in 1957 by Atlantic/Little, Brown. While presented as a novel, it captures with vivid fidelity the life of the Chesapeake watermen and their families in the early 20th century.

"This is literally a wonderful book. The wonder is that of a boy, Noah Marlin, growing up along the Chester River near the Chesapeake Bay. Inevitably there is something of Twain and Tarkington in his pranks, hooky-playing, and fishing. But other qualities distinctly Gilbert Byron's make the novel more than a nostalgic re-creation of an American childhood….This isn't childhood we're reading about, it's life."
--- Gerald Walker, Saturday Review

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Release dateOct 8, 2014
ISBN9780990460886
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Gilbert Byron

Like his young fictional hero, Noah Marlin, Gilbert Byron (1903-1991) was a Chesapeake Bay waterman’s son. He taught school for many years in Maryland and Delaware, but with the acceptance of The Lord’s Oysters, he left teaching to devote full time to writing.  He lived for many years in a waterfront cabin he built himself near St. Michael’s, Maryland. During his lifetime, Byron published 14 books, over 70 short stories, and hundreds of newspaper articles, earning him the titles of “Chesapeake Thoreau” and “The Voice of the Chesapeake.”  This is likely the largest collection of writing about the bay areas ever produced by one person. 

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