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Mrs. Threadgoode's tale of two high-spirited women of the 1930s, Idgie and Ruth, helps Evelyn, a 1980s woman in a sad slump of middle age, to begin to rejuvenate her own life.
Caramellunacy: Both stories are bittersweet - tales of hardship, prejudice and hope although they are set in very different places and very different times. Both are heartwarming, but best of all, both stories also had me laughing uproariously at one point or other. Fried Green Tomatoes jumps around but describes life, race relations and murder in a small Southern town during the Great Depression. Shaffer's novel deals with the occupation (and its aftermath) of the small Channel Island of Guernsey during WWII.… (més)
Una doble història, una relació entre dues dones desconegudes que traben amistat en una residència i es fan més felicers mútuament, i la de la família política dela més vella, sobretot, d'una cunyada, la seva parella i de tot el poble, situat a Alabama, durant la Gran Depressió. Magnífica reconstrucció d'ambients de "blancs" i de "negres" de l'època, que potser encara en part perdura. La forma narrativa és lleugera, fàcil de llegir, amena. ( )
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I may be sitting here at the Rose Terrace Nursing Home, but in my mind I'm over at the Whistle Stop Cafe having a plate of fried green tomatoes. --Mrs. Cleo Threadgoode June 1986
Dedicatòria
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For Tommy Thompson
Primeres paraules
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The Whistle Stop Cafe opened up last week, right next door to me at the post office, and owners Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamieson said business has been good ever since.
Citacions
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He wanted to get out of Chicago; the wind that whipped around the buildings was so cold that it sometimes brought a tear to a man's eye.
But who could have known that all the shiny shoes and flashy three-piece suits could never cover up the bitterness that had been growing in his heart all these years...
His main problem in life, at the moment, was that he loved too well and not too wisely.
Darreres paraules
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The old woman stood on the side of the road and waved back until the car was out of sight.
Mrs. Threadgoode's tale of two high-spirited women of the 1930s, Idgie and Ruth, helps Evelyn, a 1980s woman in a sad slump of middle age, to begin to rejuvenate her own life.