Whistle Stop (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780743254861)

Now back in print -- Maritta Wolff's 1941 masterpiece about small-town Midwestern life in post-Depression America.

Whistle Stop, published to rave reviews and astonishing commercial success, is the story of the Veech family, an oversize, poverty-stricken tribe trying to make good in a cruel world.

Through the course of a punishingly hot summer, we experience life with the six children and three adult Veeches as they bicker, brawl, make up, and provide titillating morsels of scandal for the neighborhood.

A work of darkly comic grotesque, replete with shades of Flannery O'Connor, Whistle Stop is also a wrenching and earnest rumination on the tragedy of thwarted love.

Author: Maritta Wolff
ISBN-10: 0743254864
ISBN-13: 9780743254861
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2005
Pages: 371
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.26w x 0.94d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/15/2005 pg. 172
Library Journal 01/01/2005
Ingram Advance 04/01/2005 pg. 87