# The Big Oyster

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- Book: [The Big Oyster](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-kurlansky/the-big-oyster) ([The Big Oyster.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-kurlansky/the-big-oyster.md))
- Authors: [Mark Kurlansky](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-kurlansky)
- Publisher: random_house_trade_paperbacks
- ISBN: 978-03-4547-639-5
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2007-01-09
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

“Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining.” –The New York Times “A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the...