Cold Sassy Tree

Book Details

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Author(s):

Olive Ann Burns

First Pub:

1984

Genre(s):

Fiction

First Read:

2023

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

50 chapters

Internal ID:

3056

Series:

No series

Copyright:

Dedication:

To Andy
My beloved

To Becky and John
Our grown children

And to my father
Who was fourteen in 1906

First Sentence:

Three weeks after Granny Blakeslee died, Grandpa came to our house for his early morning snort of whiskey, as usual, and said to me, "Will Tweedy?

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

I still have that piece of root, put away in a box with my journal, my can of tobacco tags, the newspaper write-up when I got run over by the train, a photograph of me and Miss Love and Grandpa in the Pierce, my Ag College diploma from the University - and the buckeye that Lightfoot gave me.

Primary Location(s):

Cold Sassy, Georgia

Comments:

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Added: 27-Apr-2022

Last Updated: 03-Jan-2023

Quotes

Jesus meant us to ast God to hep us stand the pain, not beg Him to take the pain away.

Cold Sassy Tree
Olive Ann Burns

But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.

Cold Sassy Tree
Olive Ann Burns

Publications

01-Dec-2004

Blackstone Audio, Inc

Audiobook

Date Issued:

01-Dec-2004

Format:

Audiobook

Cover Price:

$23.07

Length:

12 hrs 48 min (405 pages)

"Read":

Once

Reading(s):

1) 29 Dec 2022 - 3 Jan 2023

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

12909

Publisher:

Blackstone Audio, Inc

ISBN:

Unknown

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Grover Gardner - Narration

From audible.com:

The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around fast. If the preacher's wife's petticoat shows, the ladies will make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, things take a scandalous turn. That is the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, elopes with Miss Love Simpson, a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee! On that day, 14-year-old Will Tweedy's adventures begin and an unimpeachably pious, deliciously irreverent town comes to life.

Olive Ann Burns's classic best seller 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.

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Author(s)

Olive Ann Burns
Birth: 17 Jul 1924 Banks County, Georgia, US
Death: 04 Jul 1990

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