Well, but how could I just stop there? Those words were worse than nothing if I didn't tell what they meant to Grandpa. "'Seek and ye shall find knock, and it shall be opened unto you For every one that asketh receiveth and he that seeketh findeth and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.' We have the same message in the Book of Saint John," I said, sounding for all the world like a preacher." ( From the publisher.“Ask and it shall be given you,'" I began. Olive Ann Burns’s classic bestseller is a timeless, funny, and resplendent treasure. Inhabited by characters who are wise and loony, pious and deliciously irreverent, Cold Sassy, Georgia, is the perfect setting for the debut of a storyteller of rare brio, exuberance, and style.Ĭold Sassy Tree is the undeniably entertaining and extraordinarily moving account of small-town Southern life in a bygone era.
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.
As the newlyweds' chaperon, conspirator, and confidant, Will is privy to his one-armed, renegade grandfather's second adolescence meanwhile, he does some growing up of his own.
And young Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a major scandal.īoggled 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. 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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