Nineteen and went on to distinguish herself as an actress and a writer in Trains don't stop there anymore.' - Publisher's WeeklyĪbout the Author Fannie Flagg began writing and producing television specials at age The book'sīest character, perhaps, is the town of Whistle Stop itself-too bad Will find her grown-up successor, Idgie, equally appealing. When I walked into the Whistle Stop Cafe sheįractured my funny bone, drained my tear ducts, and stole my heart.' - Florence King, Author of Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady 'Admirers of the wise child in Flagg's first novel, Coming Attractions, Of perfect details that might otherwise be forgotten.' - Los Angeles Times 'A sparkling gem.' - Birmingham News 'Watch out for Fannie Flagg. Into complex happenings that take on universal meanings.' - Chattanooga Times 'This whole literary enterprise shines with honesty, gallantry, and love The writer's imaginative skill transforms simple, everyday events If you put an ear to the pages, you can almost hear the characters 'The people in Miss Flagg's book are as real as the people in books canīe. The Washington Post 'Courageous and wise.' The New York Times 'It's very good, in fact, just wonderful.' Harper Lee, Author of To Kill a Mockingbird 'A real novel and a good one. Idgie Threadgoode is a true original: Huckleberry Finn would have tried to marry her!' Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved a whole community of them in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure.

'Airplanes and television have removed the Threadgoodes from the Southern scene. And as the past unfolds, the present-for Evelyn and for us-will never be quite the same again.

The tale she tells is also of two women-of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth-who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age.

Folksy and fresh, endearing and enduring, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe tells the tale of two women and the cafe they ran in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering barbecue, coffee, love, laughter-and an occasional murder.īook Synopsis Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s of gray-headed Mrs. About the Book A new edition of the bestseller that became a national touchstone and a beloved movie.

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