Consider the Oyster he winds up saying just

he winds up saying just about everything that needs to be said about the American West

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew

an unidentified man has been found dead in the home of one of the Pardner members

[Carver] has done what many of the most gifted writers fail to do: He has invented a country of his own

along with his best work spanning more than three decades

Consider the Oyster he winds up saying justM. F. K. Fisher, whom John Updike has called our "poet of the appetites," here pays tribute to that most delicate and enigmatic of foods the oyster. As she tells of oysters found in stews, in soups, roasted, baked, fried, prepared la Rockefeller or au naturel and of the pearls sometimes found therein Fisher describes her mother's joy at encountering oyster loaf in a girls' dorm in he 1890's, recalls her own initiation into the "strange cold