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Book SynopsisMemories of the author's youth are incorporated in a novel about the boyhood escapades of Noah Marlin, the son of a Chesapeake Bay waterman.
Trade ReviewThis is literally a wonderful book. The wonder is that of a boy, Noah Marlin, growing up along the Chester River near the Chesapeake Bay. Inevitably there is something of Twain and Tarkington in his pranks, hooky-playing, and fishing. But other qualities distinctly Gilbert Byron's make the novel more than a nostalgic re-creation of an American childhood. This isn't childhood we're reading about, it's life. Saturday Review Crabs, perch, terrapin and frogs enter the episodes, but they are the only things fishy about this very happy sequence of a boy's growing. New York Times Book Review
Table of ContentsPrologue
1. Rose Mack and Miss Emma
2. A Breath of Fresh Air
3. Rags! Rags! Rags!
4. Come Dogwood Time
5. Frogs and Turtles and Puppy Dog Tails
6. Puss! Puss! Puss!
7. Mr. Greenley's Ghost
8. On the Lower Deck
9. The Hunter Is a Sissy
10. Birds of a Feather
11. To the Victor
12. the Birth of Hypochondria
13. Izzy Comes to Town
14. Vision of Miss Sally
15. Noah and Jonah
16. Catching the Devil
17. Mr. Lewy and the Age of Speed
18. Grandpappy's Foggy Day
19. Rip
20. The Christian Thing to Do
21. My Lewy Had Wings
22. The Prodigal Son
23. Cupid and the Little City Girl
24. Long Pants or a Mustache
25. Wig
26. The Passing of the River Rats
27. Batty: Wildnerness Scout
28. The Lord's Oysters
