Whistle: A Novel - Softcover

"Daugharty writes taut and vivid prose that brands white-hot images on your gray matter and makes you sit up straight with admiration."-- Lisa Alther, "Washington Post Book World""Whistle" is an ambitious and vivid tale, by an increasingly impressive novelist."-- "Kirkus Reviews""Whistle is a wonderful piece of storytelling...It is also a shrewd social commentary."-- Amanda Heller, "Boston Sunday Globe"In much the same way that Shirley Ann Grau's 1964 Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Keepers of the House" defined the rural South of its time, ["Whistle"] captures three decades later. Here is a work against fiction about today's South should be measured for a long time."-- "Publishers Weekly"

When Roper, an uneducated, hard-working black man in the South, discovers the body of his boss's wife, dead of a sudden heart attack, he fears he will be sent to jail for murder and hides her body in a deep well. By the author of Earl in the Yellow Shirt. Reprint.