Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel
AUTHOR: Fannie Flagg
LANGUAGE: English
PUBLISHER: Random House
SIZE: 6.39 x 1.33 x 9.51 inches
ISBN-10: 375508414
ISBN-13: 978-0375508417
PUBLICATION DATE: May 7, 2002
PRINT LENGTH: 416 pages
Description:
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a folksy and fresh novel that will make you laugh (a lot), cry (a little), and care (forever). The story unfolds through the narrative of two women in the 1980s, where gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode recounts her life to Evelyn, who finds herself in the sad slump of middle age.
The tale she shares is of two other women from decades past: the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth. Together they ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama—a Southern Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue, good coffee, and an abundance of love and laughter, even with its share of occasional murders.
As the past unfolds, it transforms the present for both Evelyn and the reader. The humor and drama of this novel are punctuated by a bittersweet ending that will fill the Whistle Stop Lake with smiling tears… if they only knew.
