Wolf Whistle by Lewis Nordan

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Born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, novelist Lewis Nordan was fifteen years old the summer two white men from the next town were tried for the murder of a black boy who wolf-whistled at a white woman. The boy's name was Emmett Till and the year his murderers were tried (and acquitted) was 1955. More

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  • John McReview
    John McReview
    Kirkus Reviews View Profile

  • Nordan displays some of Faulkner's lyricism and Flannery O'Connor's surreal humor but emerges as a unique and powerful Southern storyteller in his own right.

  • 3/4
  • Jessica Bookworm
    Jessica Bookworm
    Library Journal View Profile

  • By showing Till's murder through the scrim of magic realism, Nordan...has allowed his benighted characters a glimpse of transcendence. The result is a high-wire act...that can only enhance Nordan's reputation.

  • 4/4
  • Karl Heinrich M.
    Karl Heinrich M.
    Philosopher, Author View Profile

  • I haven't actually read the book, but the cover was sort of annoying, so this book receives a weak one out of four.

  • 1/4
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