Cold Sassy Tree (with Connections)

Teen & Young Adult

Olive Ann Burns

Literature & Fiction

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Cold Sassy Tree (Arena Books)

Contemporary

Arena Arrow

Cold Sassy Tree

Delta March 1994, New York

If the preacher's wife's petticoat showed, the ladies would make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, things took a scandalous turn. That was the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, eloped with Miss Love Simpson—a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee! On that day, fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy's adventures began and an unimpeachably pious, deliciously irreverent town came to life. Not since To Kill A Mockingbird has a novel so deftly captured the subtle crosscurrents of small-town Southern life. Olive Ann Burns classic bestseller brings to vivid life an era that will never exist again, exploring timeless issues of love, death, coming of age, and the ties that bind families and generations.

Humor & Satire

Dial Press Trade Paperback

British & Irish

Century; New Ed edition (May 5, 1988)

Cold Sassy Tree (Library Edition)

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

An AudioFile Earphones Award Winner *Read by Tom Parker [aka-Grover Gardner]* One thing you could depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, was that word got around--fast. If the preacher's wife's petticoat showed, the ladies would make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, things took a scandalous turn. That was the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, eloped with Miss Love Simpson--a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee! On that day, fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy's adventures began, and an unimpeachably pious town came to life. As the newlyweds' chaperone, conspirator, and confidant, Will is privy to his renegade grandfather's second adolescence. Meanwhile, Will does some growing up of his own. He gets run over by a train and lives to tell about it, and he kisses his first girl and survives that too. Author Olive Ann Burns has given us a timeless, funny, Southern romance.

United States

Cold Sassy Tree: Replaces 4029801

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