| Cold Sassy Tree (Bantam/Doubleday/Delacorte Press Large Print Collection) |  | Author: Olive Ann Burns
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  216 reviews
Sales Rank: 1727882
Format: Large Print
Media: Hardcover
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.6
ISBN: 0385308426
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385308427
ASIN: 0385308426
Publication Date: September 1, 1992
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Product Description
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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Wonderful depiction of a small southern town in the early 1900's June 27, 2008
According to the flyleaf, this book was written while the author was recovering from cancer. Olive Ann Burns based the book on stories she heard from her parents and other relatives and she recreated the small Georgia town where she grew up, dubbing it Cold Sassy after the local sassafras trees. Her main character is Will Tweedy, a typical 14-year-old boy who has the usual and sometimes unusual adventures of a boy living in Georgia at the turn of the century. Will overhears a lot of conversations about his grandfather who has the audacity to remarry a mere 3 weeks after his first wife dies. This is a delightful book about a bygone era when many people lived near their relatives in a rural setting and everybody knew everyone else's business.
Perspectives on death March 7, 2008
I recently read this book for our monthly book club. It tells the story of Cold Sassy Tree through the eyes of a young boy. What our book club felt was most interesting was the way the theme of death was the main thread throughout the story. It is one of those rare, but delightful books which keeps you thinking, long after you have read the last page.
Even if death is the theme, the book is amusing and not depressing. The characters are life-like and very real. I recommend this book to any one who enjoys the abstract, as well as the obvious.
Nice Story March 6, 2008
The author did a good job with this true story about her father and his grandfather, adding just enough fiction to keep it interesting while giving the reader a very colorful picture of our American past in Georgia.
Cold Sassy Tree December 13, 2007
This was an entertaining and interesting book, with many valuable life lessons. I liked it so well, I gave this book to my husband and my father as gifts
 Great stand-alone novel... December 1, 2007
This novel is perfect in every way all on it's own. That said, there is a follow up "mostly" written by Burns titled Leaving Cold Sassy... don't go for that one. But, this one is a keeper. I was assigned this book in high school (quite a while ago) and it was one of the 1st novels that started my whole love-affair with books. I also recommend Louis L'Amour Last of the Breed (not a western, btw) ;-)
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