{"product_id":"2940169178609","title":"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe","description":"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... \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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!\" \u003cbr\u003e--Harper Lee, Author of \u003cb\u003eTo Kill a Mockingbird \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A real novel and a good one... [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It's very good, in fact, just wonderful.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Funny and macabre.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Courageous and wise.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eHouston Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47097839550704,"sku":"2940169178609","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169178609_p0.jpg?v=1769894150","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169178609","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}