Flagg's new novel is the Lake Wobegon of the South. It is folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, filled with humor and drama -- and has an ending that would fill with smiling tears the Whistle Stop Lake... if only they had a lake...

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 thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern Cafe Wobegon offering a good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder.

Condition: Pre-loved book. Minor yellowing of pages; previous owner signature on back of cover Otherwise in good condition.

Format: Paperback
Year published: 1988
Pages: 395
Sub-genre: Classics; historical fiction.
Imprint: McGraw-Hill