Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns
Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns
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Cold Sassy Tree

Author: Olive Ann Burns

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 13 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/26/2012

Synopsis

One thing you could depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, was that word got aroundfast. If the preachers wifes 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 Simpsona woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee! On that day, fourteenyearold Will Tweedys adventures began, and an unimpeachably pious town came to life. As the newlyweds chaperone, conspirator, and confidant, Will is privy to his renegade grandfathers 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. Olive Ann Burns has given us a timeless, funny, Southern romance.

About Olive Ann Burns

Olive Ann Burns (1924–1990) was born on a farm in Banks County, Georgia, and went to school in nearby Commerce, which was the model for Cold Sassy. She received a degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and for ten years was on the Sunday magazine staff of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ebookwormy1 on May 19, 2024

For years, I had heard the best American novel set in the South was "Gone with Wind" or "To Kill A Mockingbird," or more recently, "The Help" and certainly these books have their contribution to literature (you can read my reviews if you'd like), but BY FAR, my favorite book ever set in the Southern......more

Goodreads review by La Tonya on March 20, 2022

The town of Cold Sassy Tree, GA in the summer of 1906 changed forever. This is the year Miss Mattie Lou Toy Blakeslee died and her devoted husband of over 4o years Enoch Rucker Blakeslee (grandpa Blakeslee) married Miss Love Simpson just three weeks after her death. Miss Mattie Lou not cold in her g......more

Goodreads review by Megan on February 10, 2009

My grandmother's favorite book of all time, so I have always wanted to read it. This is such a great book. It nearly ripped my heart out for making me think of my Grandmother. It is about a 14 year old boy in 1906 Cold Sassy, Georgia. The book centers on Will Tweedy's relationship with his grandfath......more

Goodreads review by Book Concierge on December 03, 2018

Digital Audiobook performed by Grover Gardner Thirteen-year-old Will Tweedy narrates Burns’ historical novel which takes place in the small Georgia town of Cold Sassy Tree circa 1906. It starts when his grandfather, E Rucker Blakeslee elopes with Miss Love Simpson. It’s a scandal, given that Blakesl......more

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