Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe : [a novel]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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User Review - rmarcin - LibraryThingThis is a delightful tale of the Whistle Stop Cafe, told by a woman, Ninny Threadgoode at a retirement home to a visitor, Evelyn. She tells the story of Idgie and Ruth, who ran the cafe in the 1930s ... Read full review
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User Review - technodiabla - LibraryThingFGT is a story of a small town in the 20s-60s and its eclectic mix of inhabitants both black and white, straight and lesbian. (This novel doesn't dwell on the lesbian aspects at all but it's ... Read full review
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 7 |
Section 3 | 13 |
Section 4 | 14 |
Section 5 | 21 |
Section 6 | 26 |
Section 7 | 36 |
Section 8 | 43 |
Section 21 | 236 |
Section 22 | 243 |
Section 23 | 248 |
Section 24 | 254 |
Section 25 | 261 |
Section 26 | 268 |
Section 27 | 277 |
Section 28 | 287 |
Section 9 | 55 |
Section 10 | 63 |
Section 11 | 69 |
Section 12 | 76 |
Section 13 | 99 |
Section 14 | 126 |
Section 15 | 141 |
Section 16 | 149 |
Section 17 | 160 |
Section 18 | 167 |
Section 19 | 180 |
Section 20 | 202 |
Section 29 | 296 |
Section 30 | 298 |
Section 31 | 315 |
Section 32 | 319 |
Section 33 | 352 |
Section 34 | 367 |
Section 35 | 384 |
Section 36 | 390 |
Section 37 | 391 |
Section 38 | 395 |
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Common terms and phrases
ALABAMA Artis asked baby began better Big George Birmingham Buddy busy cafe called cause church Cleo Club colored don’t door dress drink Evelyn eyes face feel first Frank front girl give gonna Grady green guess hair half hand happened happy head hear heard heart honey Idgie kill knew later laughed leave light live looked matter mean minute Miss Momma morning mother never night ofthe once Onzell opened passed picture playing pulled railroad remember running Ruth seen side Sipsey sitting smiled Smokey standing started stay street Stump sure talk tell Thank thing thought Threadgoode told took town train trying turned waiting walked week WHISTLE STOP woman wonder yard
Bibliographic information
| Title | Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe : [a novel] Ballantine Books |
| Author | Fannie Flagg |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Ballantine Books, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0804115613, 9780804115612 |
| Length | 402 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Classics Fiction / General |
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