Fannie Flagg est une auteure renommée dont la carrière s'étend à la télévision, au cinéma et au théâtre, s'établissant comme une voix distinctive dans l'art de raconter des histoires. Ses œuvres sont reconnues pour leur style unique qui explore souvent des thèmes poignants avec un sens aigu du détail et de l'humour. Les lecteurs sont attirés par sa capacité à créer des personnages vivants et des récits résonnants qui laissent une impression durable. Son écriture se caractérise par des dialogues riches et des intrigues captivantes qui vous entraînent dans ses univers.
C'est l'histoire de Ruth Jamison et Idgie Threadgoode et de leur café à Whistle Stop, Alabama, où la solidarité prime. Ninnie Threadgoode partage ses souvenirs avec Evelyn, une femme discrète, et leur amitié lui redonne espoir. Elle lui enseigne que la chaleur et l'humour sont plus précieux que l'argent.
Birmingham, États-Unis. Ex-Miss Alabama, Maggie Fortenberry a pris une grande décision : elle va mettre fin à ses jours. Elle n'est ni malade ni déprimée, son travail dans une petite agence immobilière est plutôt agréable, mais elle a trouvé malgré tout seize bonnes raisons d'en finir, la principale étant peut-être que, à 60 ans, elle pense avoir connu le meilleur de la vie. Maggie a donc arrêté la date de sa mort et se consacre désormais en toute discrétion à en régler les détails. Or, peu de temps avant de passer à l'acte, Maggie est invitée par une collègue, Brenda, à un spectacle de derviches tourneurs. La représentation étant dans moins d'une semaine, elle décide, pour faire plaisir à Brenda, de retarder l'ultime échéance. Elle est alors loin de se douter combien les jours à venir vont être riches en secrets dévoilés et en événements imprévus, lesquels vont lui montrer que l'existence a encore beaucoup plus à lui offrir qu'elle ne le croyait.
Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. Like Fannie Flagg's classic Fried Green Tomatoes, this is a riveting, fun story of two families, set in present day America and during World War II, filled to the brim with Flagg's trademark funny voice and storytelling magic
'Another Chicago Winter' Oswald T. Campbell, aged fifty-two, down-and-out in a Chicago winter, is given only months to live unless he moves South... He finds himself in the small town of Lost River, Alabama, where the residents are friendly if feud-prone and eccentric to a fault. One of them, Roy, keeps a red cardinal, a once wounded bird called Jack. Patsy, a sad, sweet little kid with a crippled leg, from the trailer park up in the woods, takes to dropping by the store - and falls in love with Jack. Flagg takes us on an emotional roller-coaster ride through the lives and hearts of an engaging crew of misfits, fixers and ordinary good-hearted folk, set against the vivid natural backdrop of a mellow Alabama winter.
Beginning in 1952, Daisy Fay Harper's journal chronicles the young girl's growth from a lonely and insecure eleven year old to the self-assured, flamboyant winner of the Miss Mississippi contest six years later
The time: 1946-2000. The Place: Elmwood Springs, Missouri. Right in the middle of everywhere, which could be anywhere. World War II has ended and the joyous transitions to peace are being - mostly - embraced. Bobby Smith, ten, is the effervescent son of the well-known radio hostess Neighbour Dorothy, who broadcasts every day from her living room, via the tower in her backyard, to an eager, and at times lonely, audience. And meet the Oatman Family Southern Gospel Singers at a pharmaceutical convention in Memphis, where they blow the place away; Hamm Sparks, a super-salesman everyone likes and trusts, who soon sells all of Missouri; and the phenomena known as the Sunset Club, Dinner on the Ground and the Funeral King.
mines golden seams of goodness and gritty determination, prejudice and despair, love and survival, in the story of a young TV interviewer, Dena Nordstrom, whose future looks full of promise, whose present is an emotional mess, and whose past is marked by mystery.
Back in Elmwood Springs, Missouri the experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ask the question " Why are we here "
The bestselling author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is at her superb best in this fun loving, moving novel about what it means to be truly alive. Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening at the cemetery. Still Meadows, as its called, is anything but still. Original, profound, The Whole Towns Talking, a novel in the tradition of Thornton Wilders Our Town and Flaggs own Cant Wait to Get to Heaven, tells the story of Lordor Nordstrom, his Swedish mail order bride, Katrina, and their neighbors and descendants as they live, love, die, and carry on in mysterious and surprising ways. Lordor Nordstrom created, in his wisdom, not only a lively town and a prosperous legacy for himself but also a beautiful final resting place for his family, friends, and neighbors yet to come. Resting place turns out to be a bit of a misnomer, however. Odd things begin to happen, and it starts the whole town talking. With her trademark humor, wild imagination, great storytelling, and deep understanding of folly and the human heart, the beloved Fannie Flagg tells an unforgettable story of life, afterlife, and the remarkable goings on of ordinary people. In The Whole Towns Talking, she reminds us that community is vital, life is a gift, and love never dies. From the Hardcover edition
