{"title":"Maritta Wolff","description":"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 Wolff authored more than five novels, but she hid her final, unpublished manuscript in her refrigerator until her death in 2002.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","products":[{"product_id":"night-shift-paperback-3","title":"Night Shift - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1942 to rave reviews and astonishing commercial success, Night Shift dramatizes the working class life of the Midwest during World War II with the excitement of melodrama, the vividness of documentary, and the page-turning quality of the best commercial fiction.Sally Otis works herself to the bone as a waitress, supporting her three children and a jobless younger sister. With her bills mounting and no rest in sight, Sally's resolve is beginning to crumble when her swaggering older sister, Petey Braun, appears on the scene. Petey, with her furs and jewels and exotic trips, is an American career woman--one who makes a career of men. But when Petey gets a gig at the glamorous, rowdy local nightclub, it will forever alter the world of the struggling Otis family. Night Shift \"manages to be touching and horrible, sentimental and brutal all at the same time. It is both sordidly real and theatrically melodramatic. It's good\" (New York Times).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51438240366815,"sku":"9780743254878","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Cs5K_M8TnX9780743254878.webp?v=1790093712"},{"product_id":"whistle-stop-paperback","title":"Whistle Stop - Paperback","description":"\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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67788953845983,"sku":"9780743254861","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/117ckl4kgp9780743254861.webp?v=1790700592"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/maritta-wolff.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}