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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

A Novel

By Fannie Flagg

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| Hardcover | 9780375508417

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She’s one of America’s fairest and funniest ladies. Actress and screenwriter, director and comedienne, Fannie Flagg is also a most accomplished and high-spirited author. Said Kirkus of her first book, Coming Attractions: “It’s subtitled ‘A wonderful novel&Continue

She’s one of America’s fairest and funniest ladies. Actress and screenwriter, director and comedienne, Fannie Flagg is also a most accomplished and high-spirited author. Said Kirkus of her first book, Coming Attractions: “It’s subtitled ‘A wonderful novel’ and that’s exactly what it is.” Here is her second. Get ready, because it’s going to make you laugh (a lot), cry (a little), and care (forever).

What is it? It’s first the story 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 quite be the same.

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, with humor and drama—and with an ending that would fill with smiling tears the Whistle Stop Lake...if they only had a lake....

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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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