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Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe [electronic resource] / Fannie Flagg.
Mrs. Threadgoode's tale of two high-spirited women of the 1930s, Idgie and Ruth, helps Evelyn, a 1980s woman in a sad slump of middle age, to begin to rejuvenate her own life.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307776655 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0307776654 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Publishing Group, [1997?], c1987.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from ePub title page (viewed Feb. 18, 2011). Includes author interview and a reader's guide with discussion questions. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console |
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| Subject: | Reminiscing in old age > Fiction. Female friendship > Fiction. Women > Alabama > Fiction. Race relations > Fiction. Restaurants > Fiction. Lesbians > Fiction. Alabama > Fiction. |
| Genre: | EBOOK. Domestic fiction. Love stories. Electronic books. |
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- Baker & Taylor
A new edition of the best-selling novel--the basis of the popular motion picture--traces the relationship between two women in the 1930s who run a cafe in a one-horse town in Alabama. Reprint. - Random House, Inc.
Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, whoâs in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, whoâs telling her life story. Her tale includes two more womenâthe irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruthâwho back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering good coffee, southern barbecue, and all kinds of love and laughterâeven an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present will never be quite the same again.
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Praise for Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
âA real novel and a good one [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller.ââThe New York Times
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âHappily 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.ââHarper Lee
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âThis whole literary enterprise shines with honesty, gallantry, and love of perfect details that might otherwise be forgotten.ââLos Angeles Times
âFunny and macabre.ââThe Washington Post
âCourageous and wise.ââHouston Chronicle - Random House, Inc.
Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who's in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who's 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.
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Praise for Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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'A real novel and a good one [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller.''The New York Times
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'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
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'this whole literary enterprise shines with honesty, gallantry, and love of perfect details that might otherwise be forgotten.''Los Angeles Times
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'Funny and macabre.''The Washington Post
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'Courageous and wise.''Houston Chronicle
