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| | TIME.com: -- Aug. 11, 1930 -- Page 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Far better than the repulsive story or its unreal characters is Author Wall's treatment of the swamp background, with its rank decay, its hot ooze, its suggestive resemblance to African jungles. |
 | | The story's problem of miscegnation is authentic, widespread in the South. |
 | | Evans Spencer Wall, about 40, born in Mississippi of good white stock on the edge of the swamp country, rolled from job to job* newsgatherer, plantation manager, railroad worker, deckhand, taxidriver. |
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