Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
by Fannie Flagg and Akiko Izumi
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The remarkable story of two Southern friendships. Flagg's novel weaves together the past and the present through the blossoming friendship between Evelyn Couch, a middle-aged housewife, and Ninny Threadgoode, an elderly woman who lives in a nursing home. Every week Evelyn visits Ninny, who tells her stories about memories of her youth in Whistle Stop, Alabama where her sister-in-law Idgie and Idgie's friend Ruth ran a café. These stories, along with Ninny's friendship, enable Evelyn to begin a new, satisfying life while allowing the people and stories of Ninny's youth to live on. The book was also made into a movie.
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Race relations, Reminiscing in old age, Female friendship, Romance norte americano, Fiction, Lesbians, Women, Domestic fiction, Love stories, Restaurants, Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction., Friendship, Female friendship -- Fiction., Women -- Alabama -- Fiction., Race relations -- Fiction., Restaurants -- Fiction., Lesbians -- Fiction., Alabama -- Fiction., Fiction, general, Alabama, fiction, Large type books, Lesbians, fiction, Kvinnlig vänskap, Skönlitteratur, LGBTQ novels, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, romance, general, Friendship, fictionPlaces
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Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
2005, Random House
in English
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Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
2000, Ballantine Books
in English
- 1st Ballantine Books mass market ed.
0804115613 9780804115612
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
1997 January, Random House
Paperback
in English
- 1st Ballantine Books ed
0449911357 9780449911358
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Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
1993, Published by Random House Large Print in association with Random House
in English
- 1st Large print ed.
0679744959 9780679744955
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Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
1992, Vintage
in English
- Vintage ed.
0099143712 9780099143710
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Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
1988, McGraw-Hill
in English
- 1st McGraw-Hill paperback ed.
0070212570 9780070212572
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Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe
1987, Random House
in English
- 1st ed.
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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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