making her wonder just which bits of her are really left intact
[Carver] has done what many of the most gifted writers fail to do: He has invented a country of his own
the essays maintain a casual
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he winds up saying just about everything that needs to be said about the American West
Consider the Oyster making her wonder just whichM. 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