OYSTER is a story of greed, passion and fierce rivalry which traces the deadly feud of two families on the coast of Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana in 1957. Following an old custom, Therese, the eighteen-year-old daughter of Felix and Mathilde Petitjean, has been promised in marriage to the fifty-two year old head of their rival family. But she has other plans for the old fool, and her drastic actions spark the old hatred into a flame like never before...This is an environment in which people save themselves if they are to be saved at all.
- ISBN10 0060514477
- ISBN13 9780060514471
- Publish Date 1 July 2003 (first published 4 June 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Collins
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 304
- Language English