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Whistle Stop de Maritta Wolff

Whistle Stop

Autor Maritta Wolff
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2005
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780743254861
ISBN-10: 0743254864
Pagini: 371
Dimensiuni: 134 x 205 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:Scribner Trade.
Editura: Scribner

Descriere

Originally published in 1941 to rave reviews and astonishing commercial success, "Whistle Stop" today provides a fiercely honest and dramatic portrait of the seamy side of American small-town life at the end of the Depression, as well as a gripping story of crime and tortured love.

Notă biografică

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 Wolff authored more than five novels, but she hid her final, unpublished manuscript in her refrigerator until her death in 2002. Rediscovered, that novel, Sudden Rain, is available from Scribner.