Fannie Flagg

"The bestselling author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is at her superb best in this fun loving, moving novel about what it means to be truly alive. Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening at the cemetery. Still Meadows, as its called, is anything but still. Original, profound, The Whole Towns Talking, a novel in the tradition of Thornton Wilders Our Town and Flaggs own Cant Wait...

Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, this is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. Mrs. Sookie Poole of Point Clear, Alabama, has just married off the last of her three daughters and is looking forward to relaxing and perhaps traveling with her husband, Earle. The only thing left to contend with now is her mother, the formidable...

"Bud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad town of Whistle Stop, Alabama, with his mother Ruth, church-going and proper, and the fun-loving hell-raiser, his Aunt Idgie. Together they ran the town's popular Whistle Stop Café, known far and wide for its famous 'Fried Green Tomatoes.' And as Bud often said of his childhood, 'How lucky can you get?' But sadly, the railroad yards began to shut down and the town became a ghost town, with...

In a tiny and remote Alabama town, an unexpected, unusual, and life-transforming event that occurs on one Christmas morning changes a family and a town forever.

Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here?

"Once again, Flagg's humor and respect and affection for her characters shine forth. Many inhabit small-town or suburban America. But this time, her heroine is urban: a brainy, beautiful, and ambitious rising star of 1970s television. Dena Nordstrom, pride of the network, is a woman whose future is full of promise, her present rich with complications, and her past marked by mystery. Among the colorful cast of characters are: Sookie, of Selma, Alabama,...

Ochen' iskrennyaya, polnaya tepla i bukval'no bozhestvennaya istoriya ot avtora znamenitogo romana o zharenyh zelenyh pomidorah v kafe «Polustanok». Zhizn' poroy prepodnosit strannye syurprizy. Sekundu nazad neutomimaya missis Elner SHimfizl mirno sobiraet inzhir dlya varen'ya, a v sleduyushchiy - beseduet s Gospodom Bogom v rayu. Poka energichnaya starushka issleduet tayny zagrobnoy zhizni, na zemle vse idet naperekosyak. Ee nervnuyu plemyannicu...

Stare dobre czasy, kiedy Maggie Fortenberry z dumą reprezentowała stan Alabama w konkursie Miss Ameryki, to już zamknięty rozdział w jej życiu. Wciąż jednak jest piękna i podziwiana. Odniosła też wiele zawodowych sukcesów. Mimo to w głębi serca czuje żal. Co stało się z jej marzeniami o kochającym mężu, gromadce dzieci i pięknym domu? Jako agentka nieruchomości sprzedaje je innym. Po śmierci Hazel Whisenknott, najdroższej przyjaciółki,...

It's first the story 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 thrities ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder....