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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Flagg, Fannie (Book - 1997)
Average Rating: 4 stars out of 5.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe


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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 irrepressibly

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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 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 ofTo 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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Author: Flagg, Fannie
Title: Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Imprint: New York : - Fawcett Books
Pages: 403
Edition: 1st Ballantine Books ed
ISBN: 0449911357
Language: English
Lexile Number: 1000
Statement of responsibility: Fannie Flagg
Characteristics: 403 p. ;,22 cm.
Author (Original Script): Flagg, Fannie
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Nov 09, 2012
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  • sara_eglise rated this: 3 stars out of 5.

I found this book to be a bit slower and more topical than I had expected after seeing the movie. I have to say, I found the movie much better, which almost never happens!

Feb 05, 2010
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  • holliewood rated this: 5 stars out of 5.

I realyy enjoy fannie flaggs books. I can just picture her sitting there and telling the story.

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  • Ringwood rated this: 5 stars out of 5.

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