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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

By Fannie Flagg

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| Audio Cassette | 9780679411338

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2 cassettes / 2 hours
Read by Fannie Flagg

* Nominated for a Grammy Award for best Spoken Word Recording *


Here is a folksy and funny, endearing and affecting, southern-fried tale about two very special friendships.

In a small town near Birmingham sits the Whistle Shop CaContinue

2 cassettes / 2 hours
Read by Fannie Flagg

* Nominated for a Grammy Award for best Spoken Word Recording *


Here is a folksy and funny, endearing and affecting, southern-fried tale about two very special friendships.

In a small town near Birmingham sits the Whistle Shop Cafe, a place alive with the hungry, the heartbroken, the righteous and the garrulous.  The cafe is owned by sweet, patient Ruth, and by Idgie, irresistibly big-hearted and big-mouthed.  Their story is remembered, years later, in the Rose Terrace Nursing Home.  As elderly Cleo Threadgoode chats with her visitor - the over-stuffed, overwrought, menopausal Evelyn Couch - she casts a hypnotic narrative spell: honeysuckle vines and custard pies; births, deaths and marriages; sorrow and laughter; an occasional murder - and even the recipe for fried green tomatoes.  And as the past reaches into the present, the Whistle Sop Cafe touches the one thing missing from her existence: life.

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  • A very simple but honest book. Not pretentious at all, it is full of wisdom which is communicated in a simple and straightforward way. A book about the love and the acceptance for the diverse - a lesson of altruism and humanity.

    "There was something about Idgie that was like a wild animal. She woul ... (continue)

    A very simple but honest book. Not pretentious at all, it is full of wisdom which is communicated in a simple and straightforward way. A book about the love and the acceptance for the diverse - a lesson of altruism and humanity.

    "There was something about Idgie that was like a wild animal. She wouldn't let anybody get too close to her. When she thought that somebody liked her too much, she'd just take off into the woods. She broke hearts right and left." p. 80

    "That's when Stump realized that the little dog only had three legs. That dog jumped and ran after that ball for about ten minutes and never once lost its balance.
    'Stump, I want to ask you something son'
    'Yes m'am'
    'Did that dog look like she was happy to be alive?'
    'Yes'
    'Did it look like it was having a good time?'
    'Yes'
    'Did it look to you like she felt sorry for herself?'
    'No m'am'
    p. 115

    'There are magnificent beings on this Earth, son, that are walking around us posing as humans' p. 131

    'Now, there is a woman who's got her freedom. Nobody gives a shit where she is and ain't nobody checkin' up on her, you can be damn sure of that'. p. 259

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    Chhavi said on Aug 5, 2011 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Loved it!

    Skipping through decades and jumping from one point of view to another, Fanny Flagg sketches the story of Ninny, Idgie, Ruth, and Evelyn, and the story of a community, through colors, smells, flavours and emotions.

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    fran_ces said on Aug 23, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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