num_pages: 405
description: The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy Georgia is that word gets around--fast.On July 5 1906 scandal breaks 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 thats where his adventures begin.Cold Sassy Tree is the undeniably entertaining and extraordinarily moving account of small-town Southern life in a bygone era. Brimming with characters who are wise and loony unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent Olive Ann Burnss classic bestseller is a timeless funny and resplendent treasure.
language: English
title: Cold Sassy Tree
publisher: Mariner Books