![]() Olive Ann Burns has given us a timeless, funny Southern romance. He gets run over by a train and lives to tell about it, and he kisses his first girl and survives that too. Meanwhile, Will does some growing up of his own. On that day, fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy's adventures began, and an unimpeachably pious town came to life.Īs the newlyweds' chaperone, conspirator, and confidant, Will is privy to his renegade grandfather's second adolescence. 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. But on July 5, 1906, things took a scandalous turn. If the preacher's wife's petticoat showed, the ladies would make the talk last a week. ![]() One thing you could depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, was that word got around-fast. The rest of the volume is a biographical account written by Katrina Kenison, who first met the author when COLD SASSY TREE was being readied for publication and continued to work with her. Brimming with characters who are wise and loony, unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent, Olive Ann Burns's charming tale is a classic. ![]() ![]() Cold Sassy Tree is the undeniably entertaining and extraordinarily moving account of small-town Southern life in a bygone era. ![]()
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