Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
By: Fannie Flagg.
Edition: 1st McGraw-Hill paperback ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; heb
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780070212572
Subjects: Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction; Female friendship -- Fiction; Women -- Alabama -- Fiction; Race relations -- Fiction; Restaurants -- Fiction; Lesbians -- Fiction; Alabama -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.