book cover of Whistle Stop
 

Whistle Stop

(1941)
A novel by

 
 
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.


Genre: Romantic Suspense

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