{"product_id":"whistle-stop-paperback","title":"Whistle Stop - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaritta Wolff\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow back in print -- Maritta Wolff's 1941 masterpiece about small-town Midwestern life in post-Depression America.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhistle Stop, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA work of darkly comic grotesque, replete with shades of Flannery O'Connor, \u003ci\u003eWhistle Stop\u003c\/i\u003e is also a wrenching and earnest rumination on the tragedy of thwarted love.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaritta Wolff was born in 1918 in Michigan.\u003ci\u003e Whistle Stop\u003c\/i\u003e, her first novel, won the Avery Hopwood Award in 1940. A runaway bestseller, the book was also printed as a special Armed Forces edition for American troops during World War II. \u003ci\u003eWhistle Stop \u003c\/i\u003ewas made into a feature film in 1946, starring Ava Gardner. In the next two decades, Ms. Wolff authored more than five novels, but she hid her final, unpublished manuscript in her refrigerator until her death in 2002. Rediscovered, that novel, \u003ci\u003eSudden Rain, \u003c\/i\u003e is available from Scribner\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 371\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 8.06 x 5.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47258933035257,"sku":"9780743254861","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/E88zPZOm4G9780743254861.webp?v=1768764685","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/whistle-stop-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}