GUMBO YA-YA

by ‧ RELEASE DATE: Dec. 3, 1945

This -- too -- has everything in -- its -- ""conversational jam session"" -- New Orleans of today and yesterday, New Orleans that is more than a quaint Creole-American city, but has its other national districts, Irish, German, Cajun, Negro; a city that has charm and beauty, but ugliness and violence; that has traditions and culture and superstition and ignorance. A city with crime and reigns of terror -- more local than the Huey Long regime. A city of personalities, of gaiety, of individuality. This cross cuts the more stately Harnett Kans panorama of Louisiana -- it is a motley collection of bits of interest. Songs and street cries -- a glossary of terms -- a handbook of odd facts.

Pub Date: Dec. 3, 1945

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 1945

Categories: NONFICTION