num_pages: 391
description: One thing you could depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, was that word got around--fast. 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 town came to life. As the newlyweds' chaperone, conspirator, and confidant, Will is privy to his renegade grandfather's second adolescence. Meanwhile, Will does some growing up of his own. He gets run over by a train and lives to tell about it, and he kisses his first girl and survives that too. Author Olive Ann Burns has given us a timeless, funny, Southern romance.
language: English
title: Cold Sassy Tree
titlecomplete: Cold Sassy Tree
characters: E. Rucker Blakeslee, Will Tweedy, Love Simpson
genres: Coming Of Age, Young Adult, Adult, Historical, Southern, Fiction, Classics, Audiobook, Historical Fiction, Adult Fiction
ratings_count: 102489
places: Georgia
publisher: Laurel