Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - by Fannie Flagg (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A new edition of the bestseller that became a national touchstone and a beloved movie. 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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... <p/>"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!" <br>--Harper Lee, Author of <b>To Kill a Mockingbird </b> <p/>"A real novel and a good one... [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller." <br>--<i>The New York Times </i> <p/>"It's very good, in fact, just wonderful." <br>--<i>Los Angeles Times</i> <p/>"Funny and macabre." <br>--<i>The Washington Post</i> <p/>"Courageous and wise." <br>--<i>Houston Chronicle</i><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"The people in Miss Flagg's book are as real as the people in books can <br>be. If you put an ear to the pages, you can almost hear the characters <br>speak. The writer's imaginative skill transforms simple, everyday events <br>into complex happenings that take on universal meanings." <p/>--<i>Chattanooga Times</i> <p/>"This whole literary enterprise shines with honesty, gallantry, and love <br>of perfect details that might otherwise be forgotten." <p/>--<i>Los Angeles Times</i> <p/>"A sparkling gem." <p/>--<i>Birmingham News</i> <p/>"Watch out for Fannie Flagg. When I walked into the Whistle Stop Cafe she <br>fractured my funny bone, drained my tear ducts, and stole my heart." <p/>--<i>Florence King, Author of Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady</i> <p/>"Admirers of the wise child in Flagg's first novel, Coming Attractions, <br>will find her grown-up successor, Idgie, equally appealing. The book's <br>best character, perhaps, is the town of Whistle Stop itself--too bad <br>trains don't stop there anymore." <p/>--<i>Publisher's Weekly</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Fannie Flagg began writing and producing television specials at age<br>nineteen and went on to distinguish herself as an actress and a writer in<br>television, films, and the theater. Her first novel, <b>Daisy Fay and The<br>Miracle Man</b>, spent ten weeks on the New York Times paperback<br>bestseller list, and her second novel, <b>Fried Green Tomatoes at the<br>Whistle Stop Cafe</b>, was on the same list for thirty-six weeks. It was<br>produced by Universal Pictures as the feature film Fried Green<br>Tomatoes. Flagg's script was nominated for both the Writers Guild of<br>America and an Academy Award, and it won the highly regarded<br>Scripters Award. Flagg narrated both novels on audiocassette and<br>received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Spoken Word. <p/>Her latest novel is titled <b>Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!</b> She lives<br>in California and Alabama.
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