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Oyster: A Novel Children's Literature Some prominent anthropologists have beenWith comparisons to Flaubert, Chekhov, and Faulkner, 0. Henry Award winner John Biguenet earned wide acclaim for his debut short story collection, The Torturer's Apprentice. In his much anticipated first novel, Oyster, he demonstrates the same mastery of craft and rigor of vision that led critics across the country to join Robert Olen Butler in praising this "important new writer." Set on the Louisiana coast in 1957, Oyster recounts the engrossing