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"\n  Cold Sassy Tree is the undeniably entertaining and extraordinarily moving account of small-town Southern life in a bygone era. Brimming with characters who are wise and loony,\n  unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent, Olive Ann Burns&rsquo; charming tale is a classic.\n\n\n  One thing you could depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, was that word got around&mdash;fast. If the preacher&rsquo;s wife&rsquo;s petticoat showed, the ladies would make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906,\n  things took a scandalous turn. That was the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, eloped with Miss Love Simpson&mdash;a woman half his age and, worse\n  yet, a Yankee. On that day, fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy&rsquo;s adventures began, and an unimpeachably pious town came to life.\n\n\n  As the newlyweds&rsquo; chaperone, conspirator, and confidant, Will is privy to his renegade grandfather&rsquo;s second adolescence. Meanwhile, Will does some growing up of his own. He gets run over by a train\n  and lives to tell about it, and he kisses his first girl and survives that too. Olive Ann Burns has given us a timeless, funny, Southern romance.\n"
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