He is barely three weeks a widower, and she is only half his age and a Yankee to boot. Rucker Blakeslee, elopes with Miss Love Simpson. On July 5, 1906, scandal breaks in the small town of Cold Sassy, Georgia, when the proprietor of the general store, E. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. The lessons of life and death, of piousness and irreverence, form the basis of these memorable characters and their stories. This novel of warm humor and honesty is told by Willy Tweedy, a 14-year-old boy living in a small, turn-of-the-century Georgia town. Brimming with characters who are wise and loony, unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent, Olive Ann Burns’s classic bestseller is a timeless, funny, and resplendent treasure. Cold Sassy Tree is the undeniably entertaining and extraordinarily moving account of small-town Southern life in a bygone era. As their marriage inspires a whirlwind of local gossip, fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a family scandal, and that’s where his adventures begin.
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