RIDIN' THE RAINBOW

by Rosemary Taylor ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 16, 1944

A companion piece to Chicken Every Sunday -- and at moments it measures up to the high comedy of that. But the overall is not so consistently good -- there is, for my money, too much of local politics, of the business of getting statehood for Arisona, of competition between Tucson and Phoenix. ""Father"" -- whose story this is -- emerges as more successful, at times spectacularly so, than one might have sansed from ""Mother's story but he certainly kept the boat rocking with his schemes and visions. He had his failures, but the chief problems seemed to be that he would go off at tangents, and let a going concern go down the skids under absentee management, while he looked for the pot of gold. His coffee agency survives most of his other ventures; his laundry business provided the wherewithal when other things failed; his dabbles in real estate never quite petered out. And Father had plenty of fun and adventure out of life, while Mother kept the boarding house and sold tamales. There's loss anecdotal quality -- fewer good repeatable tales --and more perhaps, of the background picture of the new West. The publishers are backing this with a $10,000 campaign -- a printing of 25,000.

Pub Date: Oct. 16, 1944

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Whittlesey

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1944

Categories: NONFICTION