Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A NovelFolksy 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. Praise for Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe “A real novel and a good one [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller.”—The New York Times “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 “Funny and macabre.”—The Washington Post “Courageous and wise.”—Houston Chronicle |
Contents
Section 1 | 75 |
Section 2 | 83 |
Section 3 | 88 |
Section 4 | 112 |
Section 5 | 151 |
Section 6 | 156 |
Section 7 | 161 |
Section 8 | 168 |
Section 17 | 207 |
Section 18 | 215 |
Section 19 | 243 |
Section 20 | 260 |
Section 21 | 270 |
Section 22 | 275 |
Section 23 | 287 |
Section 24 | 295 |
Section 9 | 174 |
Section 10 | 177 |
Section 11 | 182 |
Section 12 | 187 |
Section 13 | 194 |
Section 14 | 196 |
Section 15 | 198 |
Section 16 | 206 |
Section 25 | 304 |
Section 26 | 314 |
Section 27 | 361 |
Section 28 | 377 |
Section 29 | 391 |
Section 30 | 392 |
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Common terms and phrases
ALABAMA ALABAMA'S WEEKLY BULLETIN Artis asked Aunt Idgie baby barbecue beauty shop Big George Bobby Lee Buddy cain't catfish church Cleo colored daddy Dill Pickle door Dot Weems dress drink Essie Rue Evelyn Couch eyes Fannie Flagg Frank Bennett Fried Green Tomatoes Georgia girl gonna Grady Kilgore guess hair head HOME OLD MONTGOMERY honey Idgie's kill knew laughed lima beans looked minute Miss Momma MONTGOMERY HIGHWAY BIRMINGHAM mother Naughty Bird never nigger night Ninny NURSING HOME OLD OLD MONTGOMERY HIGHWAY Onzell Peavey Peggy Poppa porch ROSE TERRACE NURSING Ruth's screaming Sipsey sitting smiled Stump sure talk tell TERRACE NURSING HOME thing thought Threadgoode told took Towanda town train Troutville Valdosta Vesta Adcock waiting walked WEEKLY WHISTLE STOP WEEMS WEEKLY WHISTLE WHISTLE STOP CAFE woman wonder