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Fannie Flagg
The eighty-year-old Mrs Clea Threadgoode tells Evelyn Couch about her life, she escapes the Rose Terrace Nursing Home and returns in her mind to Whistle Stop, Alabama in the thirties where the Whistole Stop Cafe provides good barbecure, good coffee, love and even an occasional murder.
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Fannie Flagg began writing and producing television specials at age nineteen and went on to distinguish herself as an actress and writer in television, films, and the theater. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man , Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (which was produced by Universal Pictures as Fried Green Tomatoes ), Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! , Standing in the Rainbow , and A Redbird Christmas . Flagg s script for Fried Green Tomatoes was nominated for both the Academy and Writers Guild of America awards and won the highly regarded Scripters Award.
topAbout the Book
The eighty-year-old Mrs Clea Threadgoode tells Evelyn Couch about her life, she escapes the Rose Terrace Nursing Home and returns in her mind to Whistle Stop, Alabama in the thirties where the Whistole Stop Cafe provides good barbecure, good coffee, love and even an occasional murder.
topStarting Points for Discussion
- Consider the role of the café itself – how important a role does location play in the story?
- Why does the author include a list of recipes at the end of the book?
- What role does Evelyn Coch play in this Book and does this role change in the course of the story? Do you like Evelyn?
- Why does Fannie Flagg use the short chapters with the ‘Weems Weekly’ comments from Dot Weems?
- ‘It’s funny, now I think about it, there aren’t any coloured people here at Rose Terrace at all.’ (p. 74) How well does Flagg deal with such an important piece of black history in the slow move towards emancipation in the United States?
- To what extent is Fried Green Tomatoes a crime novel?
- Would you agree with the Washington Post when they describe this novel as being ‘macabre’ ?
- ‘Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café’ has been made into a successful film. What do you think are the particular qualities of this novel that made it such a suitable choice?
Other Books by Fannie Flagg
A Redbird Christmas
Oswald T. Campbell, aged fifty-two, down-and-out in a Chicago winter, is given…
Can’t Wait to get to Heaven…
Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs Elner Shimfissle is up a tree, …
Daisy Fay And The Miracle Man…
Standing In The Rainbow
Welcome To The World Baby …
Sweeping from the gentler confines of late 1940s small town America to the …
Suggested Further Reading
- The Grapes of Wrath ~ John Steinbeck
- Fall On Your Knees ~ Anne Marie MacDonald
- Daughters of the Great Depression ~ Laura Hapke
- The Tales of the City Trilogy ~ Armistead Maupin
- Black Idol ~ Lisa St Aubin de Teran
- No Name ~ Wilkie Collins
- As You Like It ~ Shakespeare
- Ann Veronica ~ H G Wells
- South Riding ~ Winifred Hotby
- Passion Fruit ~ Sue Limb