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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

By Fannie Flagg

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| Library Binding | 9780785727361

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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. Threadgoode telling her life story to
Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the<Continue

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. Threadgoode telling her life story to
Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. 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. And as the past unfolds, the present--for Evelyn and for us--will never be quite the same again...

"Airplanes and television have removed the Threadgoodes from the Southern scene. 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. Idgie Threadgoode is a true original: Huckleberry Finn would have tried to marry her!"
--Harper Lee, Author of To Kill a Mockingbird

"A real novel and a good one... [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller."
--The New York Times

"It's very good, in fact, just wonderful."
--Los Angeles Times

"Funny and macabre."
--The Washington Post

"Courageous and wise."
--Houston Chronicle

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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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