Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

ISBN: 0449911357

Author: Flagg, Fannie

Condition: New

Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, whos in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, whos telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women-the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth-who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering good coffee, southern barbecue, and all kinds of love and laughter-even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present will never be quite the same again.Praise for Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop CafeA real novel and a good one [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller.-The New York TimesHappily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved [the Threadgoodes] in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure.-Harper LeeThis whole literary enterprise shines with honesty, gallantry, and love of perfect details that might otherwise be forgotten.-Los Angeles TimesFunny and macabre.-The Washington PostCourageous and wise.-Houston Chronicle