Ex-Library; 11 oz.; 47 pages; Ex library pictorial HC no DJ w/stickers/library markings good clean/tight copy cover some wear 1st Edition'83 Carolrhoda Books Muscle Bound. On a plantation in the South Carolina low country during pre-Civil War times, a slave cook's efforts to quiet barking hounds during a fish fry results in hush puppies, which have been served at fish fries ever since.