Whistle Stop: A Novel Book

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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Twenty-two-year-old Wolff wrote this 1941 novel as a college assignment; it was published a year later to great acclaim. Scribner is resurrecting it to coincide with the release of a last novel, discovered after her 2002 death. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.