Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe -- Fannie Flagg

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><br><br><b>Author:</b> Fannie Flagg<br><b>Publisher:</b> Ballantine Books<br><b>Published:</b> 01/21/1997<br><b>Pages:</