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      Whistle Stop

      by Maritta Wolff
      Published
      Apr 2005
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      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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      General Fiction

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      Romantic Suspense

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      Apr 2005 Scribner ISBN 0743282620
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      Apr 2005 Simon & Schuster (UK) ISBN 184739745X
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