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Cold Sassy Tree Paperback - 2007
by Olive Ann Burns
This novel of warm humor and honesty is told by Willy Tweedy, a 14-year-old boy living in a small, turn-of-the-century Georgia town. The lessons of life and death, of piousness and irreverence, form the basis of these memorable characters and their stories.
Summary
On July 5, 1906, scandal breaks in the small town of Cold Sassy, Georgia, when the proprietor of the general store, E. Rucker Blakeslee, elopes with Miss Love Simpson. He is barely three weeks a widower, and she is only half his age and a Yankee to boot. As their marriage inspires a whirlwind of local gossip, fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a family scandal, and that’s where his adventures begin.
Cold Sassy Tree is the undeniably entertaining and extraordinarily moving account of small-town Southern life in a bygone era. Brimming with characters who are wise and loony, unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent, Olive Ann Burns’s classic bestseller is a timeless, funny, and resplendent treasure.
Cold Sassy Tree is the undeniably entertaining and extraordinarily moving account of small-town Southern life in a bygone era. Brimming with characters who are wise and loony, unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent, Olive Ann Burns’s classic bestseller is a timeless, funny, and resplendent treasure.
First line
THREE WEEKS after Granny Blakeslee died, Grandpa came to our house for his early morning snort of whiskey, as usual, and said to me, Will Tweedy?
Details
- Title Cold Sassy Tree
- Author Olive Ann Burns
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date 2007-09-04
- ISBN 9780618919710 / 0618919716
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.1 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 2.79 cm)
- Ages 14 to UP years
- Grade levels 9 - UP
- Reading level 930
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- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Cultural Region: South
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Humorous fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007018679
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"Rich with emotion, humor and tenderness." The Washington Post
"One of the best portraits of small-town Southern life ever written." --Pat Conroy
"One beautiful book. Better than To Kill A Mockingbird." --Shirley Abbott
"One of the best portraits of small-town Southern life ever written." --Pat Conroy
"One beautiful book. Better than To Kill A Mockingbird." --Shirley Abbott
Citations
- Library Journal, 09/15/2007, Page 100
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