In his nationally acclaimed "The Lord's Oysters," Gilbert Byron
told the story of a young boy growing up on Maryland's Eastern
Shore in the early twentieth century. Noah Marlin is older now, as
Byron takes up his tale of Chesapeake watermen and their families
in this sequel to his beloved classic.
In "Done Crabbin'" Noah's world has begun to change as life on
the river becomes less important than life in the town. He's
shocked to discover his fifth-grade teacher, the yellow-haired Miss
Bertie, parked in a buggy on a back road with Doc Beller, but keeps
his discovery secret when he remembers Doc's profession. ("I could
imagine myself going to him for a small filling, and then he would
strap me in his chair--it wasn't worth the chance.") He hears
William Jennings Bryan speak beneath the leaking canopy of a
Chatauqua tent during a raging thunderstorm, and remarks in passing
that a young man on the tent crew would be killed a year later when
his biplane crashed in France.
In the end, they all leave the river. Captain Cable trades his
illegal 200-pound duck gun for a carpenter's tools. "Grandpappy"
abandons his houseboat, spending his last days in the Marlin family
home. Noah's father finds a job in a Baltimore shipyard during the
World War I shipbuilding boom and, at last, brings the family to
the city to join him. And when Noah himself goes off to prep
school, he knows that he and his father have left their old lives
for good. They would never follow the water again. They are done
crabbin'.
General
Imprint: |
Johns Hopkins University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2000 |
First published: |
October 2000 |
Authors: |
Gilbert Byron
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
208 |
Edition: |
New edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8018-6528-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-8018-6528-X |
Barcode: |
9780801865282 |
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