Whistle Stop
  • Published:
    Apr-2005
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    384
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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.
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    • First Edition
    • Apr-2005
    • Scribner
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0743254864
    • ISBN13: 9780743254861
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    • Apr-2005
    • Scribner
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0743282620
    • ISBN13: 9780743282628
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    • Apr-2005
    • Simon & Schuster (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 184739745X
    • ISBN13: 9781847397454



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