Whistle Stop - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9780743254861ISBN-10:743254864UPC:9780743254861Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Romance, LiteraryBook Topic:SuspenseSize:8.06 x 5.26 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SCDH74V59A
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9780743254861ISBN-10:743254864UPC:9780743254861Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Romance, LiteraryBook Topic:SuspenseSize:8.06 x 5.26 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SCDH74V59A
Maritta Wolff was born in 1918 in Michigan. Whistle Stop, 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. Whistle Stop was 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,...
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