Showing Leaving Cold Sassy by Olive Ann Burns

HardCover Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 720 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Simply great ... Burns is as good a writer about the South as you're going to read for a Long Long Time.-Atlanta Journal -Constitution A classic bestseller. Cold Sassy Tree is the story of Will Tweedy. a fourteen-year-old boy coming of age at the turn of the century in rural Georgia. His grandfather. a recent widower. inspires a whirlwind of gossip in their small town when he marries a woman half his age. imming with characters who are wise. unimpeachably pious. and deliciously irreverent. it is a resplendent treasure. The unfinished sequel. Leaving Cold Sassy. follows Will Tweedy into adulthood. as he grapples with the influences of the modern world on his cherished southern hometown. Olive Ann Burns (1924-1990) was born on a farm in Banks County. Georgia. She received a degree in journalism from the U...