Fannie Flagg, Random, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6593-6
Flagg's whimsical heartstring tugger (after Can't Wait to Get to Heaven) follows the continually interrupted suicide attempt of a former Birmingham, Ala., beauty queen, now 60 and a realtor. The 2008 election is hitting the home stretch as former...
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Fannie Flagg . Random House, $27 (349p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6594-3
Structured much like Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Flagg's latest novel alternates between the pedestrian life of Sookie Poole, a timid middle-aged southern woman and that of her brash, adventurous ancestry, a quartet of polish...
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Fannie Flagg, Author Fawcett Books $25 (204p) ISBN 978-0-449-90877-8
Flagg, author of the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe , later made into the movie Fried Green Tomatoes , follows up both with something culinary and, logically, Southern. Her Alabama-inspired fare may not be healthy, but it's...
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Fannie Flagg, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $7.95 (403p) ISBN 978-0-07-021257-2
Cleo Threadgood, 86, shares a lifetime of memories of Whistle Stop, Ala.where the social scene centered on its one cafewith Evelyn Couch, a younger woman who is looking for meaning in her life. PW described this as ``lively readingthe kind that...
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Fannie Flagg, Author Random House (NY) $25 (403p) ISBN 978-0-394-56152-3
When Cleo Threadgood and Evelyn Couch meet in the visitors lounge of an Alabama nursing home, they find themselves exchanging the sort of confidences that are sometimes only safe to reveal to strangers. At 48, Evelyn is falling apart: none of the...
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Fannie Flagg, Author . Random $25.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-679-42615-8
From the talented storyteller whose Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
became a beloved bestseller and a successful film comes a sprawling, feel-good novel with an old-fashioned beginning, middle and end. The predominant setting is...
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Fannie Flagg, Author Random House $25.95 (365p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6126-6
Returning to Elmwood Springs, Mo., (where her sprawling 2002 novel, Standing in the Rainbow, chronicled the small town's inhabitants over five decades), Flagg keeps this outing much more tightly-focused; most of the novel takes place over a few days.
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Fannie Flagg, Author Random House Inc $25.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-679-42614-1
Because so much of Flagg's third novel takes place in the 1970s media-celebrity echelons of New York City, it doesn't offer the regional and historical color and texture of its predecessor, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. Instead,...
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Fannie Flagg, Author . Random $17.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6304-8
Lured by a brochure his doctor gives him after informing him that his emphysema has left him with scarcely a year to live, 52-year-old Oswald T. Campbell abandons wintry Chicago for Lost River, Ala., where he believes he'll be spending his last...
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Fannie Flagg, Author, Fannie Flagg, Read by , read by the author. Random House Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-0409-9
The only thing more enjoyable than reading a Fannie Flagg novel is having Flagg read it aloud herself. A born storyteller, Flagg is a marvelous reader with a warm, welcoming Alabama accent. She immediately puts listeners at ease, priming them for an
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Fannie Flagg. Random House, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-13384-2
Flagg’s memorable cast returns to Whistle Stop, Ala., made famous in Fried Green Tomatoes, in this heartfelt saga. As the characters age, they reflect on the 1930s, when the town was a lively, bustling place—but time hasn’t been kind to the hamlet,...
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