Inhabited by characters who are wise and loony, unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent, Cold Sassy, Georgia, is the perfect setting for the debut of a storyteller of rare brio, exuberance, and style. Olive Ann Burns has given us a timeless, funny, resplendent novel - about a romance that rocks an entire town, about a boy's passage through the momentous but elusive year when childhood melts into adolescence, and about just how people lived and died in a small Southern town at the turn of the century. He gets run over by a train and lives to tell about it he kisses his first girl, and survives that too. Cold Sassy Tree, a novel by Olive Ann Burns, is an incredible story about the southern town of Cold Sassy, and a young man named Will Tweedy. As the newlyweds' chaperone, conspirator, and confidant, Will is privy to his one-armed, renegade grandfather's second adolescence meanwhile, he does some growing up of his own. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Boggled by the sheer audacity of it all, and not a little jealous of his grandpa's new wife, Will nevertheless approves of this May-December match and follows its progress with just a smidgen of youthful prurience. Cold Sassy Tree Quotes by Olive Ann Burns Quotes These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. Instead of speaking gently to his daughters. Because he feels that he is right, Rucker exercises no tact. Rucker’s careless response to his daughters’ outrage reveals much about his character. And young Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a major scandal. Rucker says these words at the end of Chapter 1 in response to Mary Willis’s and Loma’s indignant reactions to the news of his second marriage. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he's aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love Simpson-a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward-the news is served up all over town with that afternoon's dinner.

The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around-fast.

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