num_pages: 471
description: 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.
language: English
title: Cold Sassy Tree
titlecomplete: Cold Sassy Tree
characters: Love Simpson, Will Tweedy, E. Rucker Blakeslee
genres: Audiobook, Coming Of Age, Historical, Historical Fiction, Southern, Adult Fiction, Young Adult, Classics, Adult, Fiction
ratings_count: 102480
places: Georgia
publisher: Dell