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Cold Sassy tree. Cold Sassy Tree is a 1984 historical novel by Olive Ann Burns. Set in the U.S. state of Georgia in the fictional town of Cold Sassy (based on the real city of Harmony Grove, now Commerce) in 1906, it follows the life of a 14-year-old boy named Will Tweedy, and explores themes such as religion, death, and social taboos.
- Olive Ann Burns
- 1984
Cold Sassy Tree is a humorous and moving story of small-town Southern life in 1906, told from the perspective of a fourteen-year-old boy. The novel explores themes of family, love, scandal, and coming of age in a bygone era.
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Sep 4, 2007 · Paperback – September 4, 2007. by Olive Ann Burns (Author) 4.5 3,365 ratings. Book 1 of 2: Cold Sassy. See all formats and editions. 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 ...
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Sep 4, 2007 · "Cold Sassy Tree" is a delightful book set in Cold Sassy, Georgia, in the early 1900s. The story's narrator is 14-year-old Will Tweedy, who is at the age where he's trying to figure life out. Will adores his Grandpa, E. Rucker Blakeslee, who also adores Will.
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Learn about the novel Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns, a coming-of-age story set in Georgia in the early 20th century. Find book summary, character analysis, quotes, and more on SparkNotes.
Inhabited by characters who are wise and loony, pious and deliciously irreverent, Cold Sassy, Georgia, is the perfect setting for the debut of a storyteller of rare brio, exuberance, and style. Cold Sassy Tree is the undeniably entertaining and extraordinarily moving account of small-town Southern life in a bygone era. Olive Ann Burns’s ...
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About Cold Sassy Tree. If the preacher’s wife’s 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 Simpson—a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee!
