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Folksy and fresh endearing and affecting Fried Green Tomatoes at the WhistleStop Cafe is thenowclassic novel of two women in the 1980s of grayheaded Mrs. Threadgoodetelling her life story toEvelyn who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also oftwo womenof theirrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruthwho back in thethirties ran a little place inWhistle Stop Alabama a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecueand good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter even an occasional murder.And as the past unfolds the presentfor Evelyn and for uswill never bequite the same again...Airplanes and television have removed the Threadgoodes from the Southernscene. Happily for us Fannie Flagg has preserved a whole community of them ina richly comic poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their livesthe sadness of their departure. Idgie Threadgoode is a true originalHuckleberry Finn would have tried to marry herHarper Lee Author of To Kill a MockingbirdA real novel and a good one... from the busy brain of a born storyteller.The New York TimesIts very good in fact just wonderful.Los Angeles TimesFunny and macabre.The Washington PostCourageous and wise.Houston Chronicle «
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