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Natives of the Delta
Sillen, Samuel | October 10, 1936 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Green Margins," by E.P. O'Donnell. The book introduces a new writer of unquestionable competence whose talent has not been worn thin by repetition. He is a fluent narrator and an unusually vivid observer of a submerged section of American life. The scene of the novel is the Mississippi Delta country, about ninety miles down the river from New Orleans. The warm abundance of this alluvial region is reflected in the richness and variety of its inhabitants. Here the Cajuns, descendants of French Acadian wanderers, mix with Slavs, African Americans, Italians and Filipinos to form a population as bewildering and colorful as the tropical vegetation by which it is nourished.

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GREEN Margins (Book); O'DONNELL, E. P.; BOOKS; PLOTS (Drama, novel, etc.); LITERATURE; STYLE, Literary
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