Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel by Fannie Flagg


Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel
Title : Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel
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ISBN : 042528655X
ISBN-10 : 978-0425286555
Language : English
Format Type : Kindle, Hardcover, Paperback
Number of Pages : 416 pages
Publication : Ballantine Books

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 womenthe irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruthwho back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering good coffee, southern barbecue, and all kinds of love and laughtereven 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 Cafe

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

Happily 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 Lee

This whole literary enterprise shines with honesty, gallantry, and love of perfect details that might otherwise be forgotten. Los Angeles Times

Funny and macabre. The Washington Post

Courageous and wise. Houston Chronicle

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel Reviews

  • Kindle Customer

    I saw this movie back in the 90's, and after watching it 20 or times over the years I finally decided to read the book. I always loved how Idgie's spirit revolutionized Evelyn's spirit, but I always thought the movie jumped around a lot. The book really jumps around

  • Kindle Customer

    Enjoyed re reading Fried Green Tomatoes after many years. Enjoyable, sweet story about real people and life in the Southin the early 1900s through the 1980s. Nothing is ever easy butpeople still make the best of what they have.

  • Jeanette M. Winton

    And, I'm going to read it again! It's adventure, it's humanity at its best and I couldn't put it down!

  • sophiesmom

    After seeing the movie many years ago, I wanted to read this book as had forgotten much about the movie but remember liking it and the stars playing in it. This is mainly an elderly person reliving the past of her Southern town and enjoyable read, especially if you like

  • Paula

    I read this book at least one a year to remind myself that there are still excellent books. Love this story

  • Terri

    A gift

  • L. J. Graham

    You'd think by now I'd understand writers, if they retain their rights, condone and allow oddly disjointed patchwork rearrangements of their works when those works are to be modified to fit other media, usually due to constraints of time and space. I had never read the book

  • Jim

    I saw this movie many years ago, and watched a couple times over the years, last month, the most recent. I always figured the book would just be a slightly longer version of the movie, especially as Ms Flagg wrote the screenplay. Wrong! My neighbor told me the book was