Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.

First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on to fellow writer and fellow Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Philip Roth on the half-title page, "For Philip - Much Love - Fannie Flagg." Roth and Flagg spent their careers writing about the same thing from opposite corners of the country: a particular American town that had vanished, or was vanishing, and that survived only in the prose of a writer who refused to let it go. Roth's town was the Jewish Newark of Weequahic High School and Chancellor Avenue, a few blocks of two-family houses and corner stores that lived in his sentences long after the neighborhood itself had been emptied. Flagg's town was Whistle Stop, Alabama—a fictional composite of the small mill towns and railroad stops of her childhood, a place where the café served pork chops and where everyone, sooner or later, came home. Each writer built a recurring fictional world to which they returned across decades. Each used that world to do something serious about American memory. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Wendell Minor. From the library of Philip Roth. An exceptional association.