Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.

FLAGG, Fannie.

$850.00

Item Number: 133206

New York: Random House, 1987.

First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Nov. 1987 For Mia- Best Wishes from “Susie Sweetwater” Fannie Flagg.” Fine in a 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.