Showing Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

Paperback. Pub Date: 2007 Pages: 400 in Publisher: Mariner Books On July 5. 1906 the scandal eaks in the small town of Cold Sassy Georgia when the proprietor of the general store. E. Rucker Blakeslee. elopes with Miss Love Simpson. He is barely three weeks a widower. and she is only half his age and a Yankee to boot. As their marriage inspires a whirlwind of local gossip. fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a family scandal. and that's where his adventures begin. Cold Sassy Tree is the undeniably entertaining and extraordinarily moving account of small-town Southern life in a bygone era. imming with characters who are wise and loony. unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent. Olive Ann Burns's classic bestseller is a timeless. funny. and resplendent treasure. A timeless. funny. resplendent novel about romance and adolescence. and how peopl...