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Fiction Book Club
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Time: Monday, November 16, 2009 6:30 p.m.
Location: Sunriver Books & Music
Phone: 541-593-2525
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg is a wonderful choice for the Fiction Book Club’s meeting Monday November 16th at 6:30. Evelyn Couch is a beleaguered, woefully overwhelmed, powerless woman. Visiting her mother in law at a nursing home out of a sense of duty, the woman hates her, she meets Ninny Threadgoode. Ninny tells her stories from the 1930’s and listens to her woes. Eveyln begins to feel more empowered more in charge of her life. Ninny’s stores center on Ruth and Idgie. Ruth marries Frank, a handsome man who gives her a son, then beats her. Idgie rescues Ruth and her son from her abusive husband. Idgie and Ruth open the Whistle Stop Café. There are dark secrets, lifelong friendship, and strange justice in the story. The characters are beyond lively; they are drawn with humor, a zesty spirit, and compassion. This is one of those books you will not want to put down.
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe(Trade Paperback)
by
Flagg, Fannie
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$15.00
Published: Ballantine Books, 1997
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
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...
"Airplanes and television have removed the Threadgoodes from the Southern scene. Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved a whole community of them in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure. Idgie Threadgoode is a true original: Huckleberry Finn would have tried to marry her "
--Harper Lee, Author of To Kill a Mockingbird
"A real novel and a good one... from] the busy brain of a born storyteller."
--"The New York Times "
"It's very good, in fact, just wonderful."
--"Los Angeles Times"
"Funny and macabre."
--"The Washington Post"
"Courageous and wise."
--"Houston Chronicle"
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