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. . . .

Fannie Flagg began writing and producing television specials at age<br>nineteen and went on to distinguish herself as an actress and a writer in<br>television, films, and the theater. Her first novel, <b>Daisy Fay and The<br>Miracle Man</b>, spent ten weeks on the New York Times paperback<br>bestseller list, and her second novel, <b>Fried Green Tomatoes at the<br>Whistle Stop Cafe</b>, was on the same list for thirty-six weeks. It was<br>produced by Universal Pictures as the feature film Fried Green<br>Tomatoes. Flagg's script was nominated for both the Writers Guild of<br>America and an Academy Award, and it won the highly regarded<br>Scripters Award. Flagg narrated both novels on audiocassette and<br>received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Spoken Word. <br><br>Her latest nov