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Saturday, 07 April 2012 00:00 |
Dirty Rice: A Season in the Evangeline League Reviewed in The Anniston Star Steven Whitton, Professor of English at Jacksonville State University, reviewed Dirty Rice: A Season in the Evangeline League in the April, 6, 2012, edition of the Anniston Star. Professor Whitton writes:
It's early in Gerald Duff's new novel that Velma Doucette tells a new tenant at her rooming house about a dish called dirty rice: "You got to get used to it, if you're going to spend anytime in this part of Louisiana. It's made up of a lot of different kinds of meat parts and whatever else comes to hand. It can be real spicy, and when you first look at it, you think it's something that might be dangerous to eat too much of. But it smells and tastes real good. You'll have the chance to eat a lot of it here." Mrs. Doucette might just as well be talking about the Rayne Rice Birds, a minor league baseball team in the Evangeline League that has, well, sort of recruited Gemar Batiste — and his red oak bat. It is 1935 and the Great Depression. And as Gemar learns in this remarkable new novel from one of the South's true talents, Mrs. Doucette might just be talking about life as well. To read the complete review online, click here. |