Cold Sassy Tree [Import] [Hardcover]

Olive Ann Burns (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 392 pages
• Publisher: Century; New Ed edition (May 5, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0712622845
• ISBN-13: 978-0712622844
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (257 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,334,262 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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66 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Boy howdy, I loved it, April 6, 2004

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Peggy Vincent "author and reader" (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cold Sassy Tree (Paperback)

Who can fail to love this wonderful novel, full of warmth, humor, and honesty, of life in a small, turn-of-the-century Georgia town. Told by Will Tweedy, a 14yo child whose Grandpa Rucker forms the spine of the novel. The story begins with the death of Grandpa Rucker's wife, a saintly woman beloved by all, and there's a lovely scene of Grandpa asking his grandson to cut all the roses from the garden and help him stick them into burlap sacking to make a blanket of roses under which to bury his wife.
After that touching scene, readers - not to mention family members and townsfolk and church people - are shocked to find Grandpa marrying Miss Love, the town's young and beautiful milliner less than a month later. And it's suspected that Miss Love has A Past.
A beautiful coming-of-age story unfolds as Will becomes the confidante of Miss Love and his grandfather, and he learns life-changing lessons about love, life, death, and the meaning of true reverence, and the smallness of some minds.
Wonderful, memorable characters, wonderful life lessons, wonderful set pieces. And absolutely top-notch dialogue.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my new favorites..., March 8, 2005

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This review is from: Cold Sassy Tree (Paperback)

I love a good novel and I'm glad our bookclub chose this one. It's a humorous and touching story about life in the south.
I recommend it as much as I would "To Kill A Mockingbird".

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Comments from a teenage writer, sort of, March 10, 2001

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This review is from: Cold Sassy Tree (Hardcover)

... I was required to read this book in school. Being biased against the tedious, coming-of-age novels that always seem to find themselves on my reading list for English class, I immediately labeled Cold Sassy Tree under the "dragging, bland, slow-moving" category. My viewpoints have changed since then. Cold Sassy Tree is a fast-paced, interesting novel about the coming-of-age of a fourteen-year-old boy named Will, who grows up in Cold Sassy, Georgia. A major family conflict sets off the cruel, small-town gossipers of Cold Sassy in the beginning of the book. As the books progresses, several smaller plots take place, which support the theme and thus complicate the story. There are some points in the novel where it seems that Will's family's reputation has gone to the dogs. In the end, however, everything works out and Will learns lessons about life, love, and dignity. For the romantic, Cold Sassy Tree covers the acceptnace of so-called "odd couples." For the religious, Cold Sassy Tree questions theological issues. And for teenage boys also coming of age, Cold Sassy Tree views life from the eyes of a fourteen-year-old (as well as comments on the opposite sex).