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The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion: A Novel
by Fannie Flagg
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- 1400065941
- ISBN 13
- 9781400065943
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About This Item
New York: Random House, November 2013. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Fine book in an As New jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, tail slightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 347 pages.
A comic mystery novel about two women who are forced to re-imagine who they are. Mrs. Sookie Poole of Point Clear, Alabama, has just married off the last of her daughters and is looking forward to relaxing and perhaps traveling with her husband, Earle. The only thing left to contend with is her mother, the formidable Lenore Simmons Krackenberry. Lenore may be a lot of fun for other people, but is, for the most part, an overbearing presence for her daughter. Then one day, quite by accident, Sookie discovers a secret about her mother's past that knocks her for a loop and suddenly calls into question everything she ever thought she knew about herself, her family, and her future. Sookie begins a search for answers that takes her to California, the Midwest, and back in time, to the 1940s, when an irrepressible woman named Fritzi takes on the job of running her family's filling station. Soon truck drivers are changing their routes to fill up at the All-Girl Filling Station. Then, Fritzi sees an opportunity for an even more groundbreaking adventure. As Sookie learns about the adventures of the girls at the All-Girl Filling Station, she finds herself with new inspiration for her own life.
A comic mystery novel about two women who are forced to re-imagine who they are. Mrs. Sookie Poole of Point Clear, Alabama, has just married off the last of her daughters and is looking forward to relaxing and perhaps traveling with her husband, Earle. The only thing left to contend with is her mother, the formidable Lenore Simmons Krackenberry. Lenore may be a lot of fun for other people, but is, for the most part, an overbearing presence for her daughter. Then one day, quite by accident, Sookie discovers a secret about her mother's past that knocks her for a loop and suddenly calls into question everything she ever thought she knew about herself, her family, and her future. Sookie begins a search for answers that takes her to California, the Midwest, and back in time, to the 1940s, when an irrepressible woman named Fritzi takes on the job of running her family's filling station. Soon truck drivers are changing their routes to fill up at the All-Girl Filling Station. Then, Fritzi sees an opportunity for an even more groundbreaking adventure. As Sookie learns about the adventures of the girls at the All-Girl Filling Station, she finds herself with new inspiration for her own life.
Synopsis
Fannie Flagg ’s career started in the fifth grade when she wrote, directed, and starred in her first play, titled The Whoopee Girls , and she has not stopped since. At age nineteen she began writing and producing television specials, and later wrote for and appeared on Candid Camera . She then went on to distinguish herself as an actress and a writer in television, films, and the theater. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man; Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe; Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!; Standing in the Rainbow; A Redbird Christmas; Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven; I Still Dream About You; and The All-Girl Filling Station’s Class Reunion . Flagg’s script for the movie Fried Green Tomatoes was nominated for an Academy Award and the Writers Guild of America Award and won the highly regarded Scripter Award for best screenplay of the year. Flagg lives happily in California and Alabama.
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- Title
- The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion: A Novel
- Author
- Fannie Flagg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1400065941
- ISBN 13
- 9781400065943
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- November 2013
- Keywords
- fiction, comedy, humor, mystery, domestic fiction, family, female, friendship, relationships, secrets, women, service stations, gas stations, women
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Humor, Comedy, Satire, Funny stuff; Domestic and Family Fiction;
- Size
- 8vo
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