Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

The remarkable novel of two Southern friendships--the basis of the hit film--available for the first time in large print. From the Trade Paperback edition. From Publishers Weekly Cleo Threadgood, 86, shares a lifetime of memories of Whistle Stop, Ala.where the social scene centered on its one cafewith Evelyn Couch, a younger woman who is looking for meaning in her life. PW described this as "lively readingthe kind that eventually nourishes Evelyn and the reader as well." Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review "The people in Miss Flagg's book are as real as the people in books can be. If you put an ear to the pages, you can almost hear the characters speak. The writer's imaginative skill transforms simple, everyday events into complex happenings that take on universal meanings." -- Chattanooga Times "This whole literary enterprise shines with honesty, gallantry, and love of perfect details that might otherwise be forgotten." -- Los Angeles Times "A sparkling gem." -- Birmingham News "Watch out for Fannie Flagg. When I walked into the Whistle Stop Cafe she fractured my funny bone, drained my tear ducts, and stole my heart." -- Florence King, Author of Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady "Admirers of the wise child in Flagg's first novel, Coming Attractions, will find her grown-up successor, Idgie, equally appealing. The book's best character, perhaps, is the town of Whistle Stop itself--too bad trains don't stop there anymore." -- Publisher's Weekly From the Trade Paperback edition. 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 more 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. #160; Praise for Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe #160; A real novel and a good one [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller. The New York Times #160; 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 #160; This whole literary enterprise shines with honesty, gallantry, and love of perfect details that might otherwise be forgotten. Los Angeles Times #160; Funny and macabre. The Washington Post #160; Courageous and wise. Houston Chronicle “A real novel and a good one [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller.” — The New York Times 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 grey-headed Mrs Threadgoode, who’s telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women — the irrepressibly dare-devilish 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.“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 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