| Cold Sassy Tree |  | Author: Olive Ann Burns
Publisher: Random House Audio
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1281445
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio Cassette
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ISBN: 0553199579
EAN: 9780553199574
ASIN: 0553199579
Publication Date: March 1, 1989
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Condition: box worn & drity Used - Good Default Text
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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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Great book September 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Am enjoying this book and the cultural visit to the deep south in the mid-1900's. Will provide some grist for comments and comparisons at the monthly book club.
Wonderful depiction of a small southern town in the early 1900's June 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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
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