Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burn
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.Olive Ann Burns was born in 1924 on a farm in Banks County, Georgia, and attended Commerce High School, which served as the inspiration for Cold Sassy. She attended Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, earned a journalism degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and worked for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution's Sunday magazine staff for ten years. Throughout her cancer treatment, she turned to fiction writing for a break. Before her death in 1990, she finished Cold Sassy Tree and a partial manuscript for its sequel, Leaving Cold Sassy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385312585 |
| ISBN 10 | 038531258X |
| Title | Cold Sassy Tree |
| Author | Olive Ann Burn |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Year published | 1986-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 391 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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