{"product_id":"whistle-stop-9780743254861","title":"Whistle Stop","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow back in print -- Maritta Wolff's 1941 masterpiece about small-town Midwestern life in post-Depression America\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\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. 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, \u003ci\u003eWhistle Stop\u003c\/i\u003e is also a wrenching and earnest rumination on the tragedy of thwarted love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780743254861\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 371\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.06h x 5.26w x 0.94d","brand":"Maritta Wolff","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38350705852597,"sku":"9780743254861","price":20.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_97fc27a2-3aa1-4c47-ba9d-e1e8420141f1.jpg?v=1611645895","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/whistle-stop-9780743254861","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}