FLAGG, Fannie.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.
New York: Random House , 1987.
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"You never know what's in a person's heart until the're tested do you": First Edition of Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe; Lengthily Inscribed by Her
First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For ____ 'You never know what's in a person's heart until the're tested do you' Love Fannie Flagg." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe spent 36 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List. Harper Lee gave a wrote of the book, saying, "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!" It is the basis for the 1991 film directed by Jon Avnet and based on Fannie Flagg's novel of the same name. Written by Flagg and Carol Sobieski, and starring Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker and Cicely Tyson.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.
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