Cold Sassy Tree - Softcover

Burns

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440212723 ISBN 13: 9780440212720

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1992

Synopsis

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! On that day, fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy's adventures began and an unimpeachably pious, deliciously irreverent town came to life. Not since To Kill A Mockingbird has a novel so deftly captured the subtle crosscurrents of small-town Southern life. Olive Ann Burns classic bestseller brings to vivid life an era that will never exist again, exploring timeless issues of love, death, coming of age, and the ties that bind families and generations.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this title

Review:

"Rich with emotion, humor and tenderness."

"One beautiful book. Better than To Kill A Mockingbird." --Shirley Abbott

"One of the best portraits of small-town Southern life ever written." --Pat Conroy

"Rich with emotion, humor and tenderness." The Washington Post
"One of the best portraits of small-town Southern life ever written." --Pat Conroy
"One beautiful book. Better than To Kill A Mockingbird." --Shirley Abbott

About the Author:

Olive Ann Burns was born in 1924 on a farm in Banks County, Georgia, and went to school in nearby Commerce, which was the model for Cold Sassy. She attended Mercer University in Macon, Georgia; 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 and Constitution. She turned to fiction writing as a respite during treatment for cancer. She completed Cold Sassy Tree and a partial manuscript for its sequel, Leaving Cold Sassy, before her death in 1990.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0440212723
• ISBN 13: 9780440212720
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback