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Cold Sassy Tree | 
 enlarge | Author: Olive Ann Burns
Creator: Tom Parker
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Category: Book
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Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 11
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6 x 5.2 x 1.5
ISBN: 1433210401
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781433210402
ASIN: 1433210401
Publication Date: March 2008
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The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around - fast. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he's aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love Simpson - a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward - the news is served up all over town with that afternoon's dinner. And young Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a major scandal. Boggled by the sheer audacity of it all, and not a little jealous of his grandpa's new wife, Will nevertheless approves of this May-December match and follows its progress with just a smidgen of youthful prurience. As the newlyweds' chaperone, conspirator, and confidant, Will is privy to his one-armed, renegade grandfather's second adolescence; meanwhile, he does some growing up of his own. He gets run over by a train and lives to tell about it; he kisses his first girl, and survives that too. Olive Ann Burns has given us a timeless, funny, resplendent novel - about a romance that rocks an entire town, about a boy's passage through the momentous but elusive year when childhood melts into adolescence, and about just how people lived and died in a small Southern town at the turn of the century. Inhabited by characters who are wise and loony, unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent, Cold Sassy, Georgia, is the perfect setting for the debut of a storyteller of rare brio, exuberance, and style.
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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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