| Definition: | | Wolf Whistle A black teenager visiting from Chicago whistles at the wrong woman--a wealthy white woman--and is murdered. Author Lewis Nordan uses this event as a window into the world of the American South during the 1950s. Wolf Whistle captures the look and smell and taste and feel aof a time and place where, for some good ol` boys and girls at least, the unquestioned verities of the past demand review. --Booklist more details ... |