Hardcover, turquoise boards spotted, VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD, 203 pp. Story of those oysters of northern France known to be among the best in the world. It is a vivid, objective account of how these oysters are cultivated and at the same time an excursion into the mysteries of the zoological story, into the historical background, and into the myths and legends of Brittany. At the hear tof the matter, presented in turn after turn of slowly accumulating drama, are the lives of the people who make the oyster growing possible.