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 irreverant 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 famimies and generations.
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: Random House Audio