About the Book
About the Book
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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Author of Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!
Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop 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...
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
- Publication Date: January 21, 1997
- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Ballantine Books
- ISBN-10: 0449911357
- ISBN-13: 9780449911358