Cold Sassy Tree
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Mariner Books; Houghton Mifflin
Published: September 4, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780618919710
Subjects: 20th Century American Novel And Short Story; Fiction; Fiction - Historical; Study Guides; American - Southern; Book Notes; Historical - General; Fiction / Literary; Family Life; Country life; Family; Georgia; Humorous fiction
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?
Description: "Olive Ann Burns's enormously popular bestseller has warmed the hearts of readers since its original publication by Houghton Mifflin in 1984. Now Houghton celebrates its return to our house with a gorgeous new paperback edition. Set in the fictional town of Cold Sassy, Georgia, at the beginning of the twentieth century, Burns's novel centers on the charming fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee decides to marry the young Miss Love Simpson a mere three weeks after his wife -- Will's grandmother -- has died, he inspires a whirlwind of local gossip. Young Will suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a family scandal, which he gracefully humors and endures; meanwhile, he has his own growing to do and mischief to find"--Publisher description.